![]() ![]() After being cast, Gadot turned to the Warner Bros. It was a role that feminists had long been jones-ing for – as every major male superhero got trotted out in big-screen prequels and sequels galore – and one with a history that extended far beyond the mere symbolism of a female superhero. ![]() “That’s where I was.” But Wonder Woman wasn’t just any leading role. “When you’re a beginner, you get excited about having a job,” says Gadot. Landing a lead in a tent-pole franchise would have been a coup for any young actor, of course. Or even if it wasn’t then, she’s made sure that it is now. “It just shows that the world was ready for a female-driven action movie,” says Gadot. In other words, the film has kicked ass, Wonder Woman-style. ![]() It is currently the highest-grossing live-action film ever directed by a woman. To date, the movie has earned more than $400 million domestically and close to $800 million worldwide. It is, in part, Gadot’s innate unflappability that helped Wonder Woman not just vastly outperform anyone’s wildest expectations, but also almost singlehandedly save the floundering DC Comics universe. And the tone can’t be completely different because the movie was already shot. “Joss, to my understanding, was Zack’s choice to finish the movie. After a family tragedy, director Zack Snyder stepped down, leaving the movie in the hands of The Avengers’ Joss Whedon, and rumors of a vast overhaul were all but confirmed when co-star Ben Affleck described the result as “an interesting product of two directors.” But, true to form, Gadot doesn’t buy in to the controversy. In fact, Gadot’s bump was just one of the complications visited upon the Justice League production team. “It was funny as hell – Wonder Woman with a bump.” “We cut open the costume and had this green screen on my stomach,” she says. Or, most impressively, the way she filmed Wonder Woman reshoots and the next installment of the DC Comics franchise ( Justice League, out this fall) while pregnant with her second child, morning sickness be damned. So what are you talking about here? Me having small boobs and small ass? That will make all the difference.’ ” Or the way she braved a London winter, shooting 12 hours a day, six days a week, in not much more than a leotard and metal wristlets. Take the way she brushes off the naysayers who took issue with Wonder Woman, a national treasure (lauded by the Smithsonian as one of the “101 Objects That Made America”), being portrayed by an Israeli: “Oh, my God, seriously, you guys?” (The movie was banned in several Arab countries for the same reason.) Or how she dispelled interweb gripes about the size of her bust with the pointed knowledge that, rather than having pinup proportions, Wonder Woman would historically have lopped off one of her breasts anyway: “I told them, ‘Listen, if you want to be for real, then the Amazons, they had only one boob. And later: “You should find your neutral place with yourself.” In her presence, these things seem possible, even probable. “I like it when it’s calm and there’s a harmonic type of atmosphere,” she tells me. Most of the world may not yet know how to pronounce her name (it’s “gadott,” not “gadoh”), but Gadot can hardly bother herself with such frivolous concerns. Her Wonder Woman performance so convincingly embodies both the badassness and the overwhelming decency of the character that she may as well be a walking, talking rebuff to the misogyny of the Trump era – so much so that it was reportedly not uncommon to see women weeping openly in theaters as they watched her onscreen. ![]() Her accent is Bond-worthy and cloaked in the smokiness of her voice. with a four-month-old (“Dude, it’s exhausting, but it’s the best”) in person, her aura hovers somewhere between Earth mother and glamazon. But it’s hard not to see elements of the superheroic in the way she just is. Gal Gadot is ostensibly here to talk about her rise from almost total unknown to an iconic, worldwide symbol of all that is good and powerful as the first-ever feature-film incarnation of Wonder Woman. Oddly, this is not a dream it’s a lunch at the Chateau Marmont. ![]()
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