I like it when people don't take themselves too seriously and do silly things. I've been shooting so many action films, and serious drama, I just wanted to do something lighter and funnier. "I think directors like to cast me because of my fitness and my physical abilities," Gadot says. It seems for Gadot, there is no getting away from the skin-tight outfits, explosions, car crashes and guns concealed in private places. This month she is appearing in her first comedy, Keeping up with the Joneses, in which she plays a super sexy spy adept at two-handed gunplay while hanging from a car speeding in reverse. She has three films in the can playing the DC comic book superhero Wonder Woman: in Batman vs Superman, released earlier this year, and next year's Wonder Woman and Justice League. Now, Gadot, 31, is Hollywood's hottest female action star. She then convinced director Justin Lin to give Gisele more stunt sequences, which Gadot performed herself. But she did land the role of Gisele in the Fast & Furious franchise. It is not something we explored but maybe in the future, who knows?"Īfter her service, Gadot studied international law before reluctantly agreeing to audition for a James Bond film. Because of that, she can fall in love with a woman. Gal Gadot: "She doesn't pay too much attention to gender. But I was never in a situation where I had to use one." I did learn to use a weapon in boot camp. I was in the gym training soldiers and keeping them in shape. "I was never on the field doing anything dangerous or with weapons. "I was a combat instructor," says Gadot (pronounced with a hard "t"). Life just happened that way."Īt 18, Gadot entered and won the Miss Israel 2004 pageant and got her first taste of modelling in Milan before going into the Israeli Defence Force, for two years of compulsory military service. I danced for 12 years – ballet, hip-hop and jazz – I thought I might be a choreographer. "My mother was a PE teacher so I grew up playing volleyball, tennis, basketball.
Growing up "very Jewish" in suburban Tel Aviv, the teenaged Gadot was tall, sporty and strong. Usually I save my crying for special occasions….Hollywood has always been well stocked with model-turned-actors, but few have the ferocious physical fitness or smarts of former Miss Israel and Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot.
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I’m not the kind of woman who watches commercials and cries I just had such a strong reaction to this movie and it caught me off guard. I was a little girl from a suburb in Israel watching this amazing character doing such incredible things. I was watching and all of a sudden I wasn’t the actress, the producer, or anything on set. "I can’t tell you about the moment in the movie that made me cry other than it happens at the very beginning," she said, according to MSN. Earlier this year, the actress revealed that the opening sequence of Wonder Woman 1984, in which a young version of her character competes against the adult Amazons in an athletic competition, had her in tears. Gadot's Wonder Woman movies have touched and inspired millions of women and girls around the world-including Gadot herself. "I wanted to show her vulnerabilities and heart." "How can you connect to a goddess that's super strong and has it all and super perfect?" Gadot explained. Superman: Dawn of Justice and 2017's Justice League. That insight became the key to the character for Gadot, who has played Diana Prince in two standalone movies as well as Batman vs.
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"I remember watching a documentary about Princess Diana and there was a part where they said she was full of compassion and always cared for the people and that was like, 'Ding, ding, ding,' that should be the Wonder Woman we have," Gadot said, according to People.
Gal Gadot's performance as Wonder Woman is iconic-and the actress recently revealed that her take on Diana Prince was actually inspired by Princess Diana.ĭuring an appearance at the virtual Vanity Fair Cocktail Hour Live! event, Gadot explained that an aha moment about Wonder Woman came to her while she was watching a documentary about the late royal.
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