![]() ![]() “I always loved the arts and I was a dancer and I loved the movies, but being an actress was never a discussion. “I came from a home where being an actress wasn’t even an option,” she tells me. (She has often been criticized for her service in the IDF, as well as a Facebook post supporting the troops during the Israeli army’s air strikes on Gaza in 2014.) One of the more extraordinary moments in Wonder Woman 1984 involves a scene in which she fights off several bad guys with her golden lasso while doing a back-bending high kick, which manages to be both badass and elegant.Īfter high school, Gadot spent two years doing her mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces, where she was a fitness and combat readiness instructor, before entering college. ![]() “We try to avoid as much as possible using CGI in the fights,” she says. ![]() Her own athleticism can be seen all over both Wonder Woman films, in which she famously performs many of her own stunts. You can imagine Gadot being very like that active little girl in the opening of Wonder Woman 1984, running, jumping, preparing physically and mentally for her future. Gadot grew up in Rosh Ha’ayin, a small city in central Israel which an Israeli friend of mine describes as being “like a typical middle-class California suburb.” Her father, Michael, was an engineer, and her mother, Irit, was a gym teacher who taught sports to Gadot and her younger sister, Dana, insisting that they run around outside rather than stay in and watch television. If we focus our resources on this type of thing, then real change would happen.” There is still a long way to go because there’s no true equality yet. “We have to role-model ourselves to our children and we have to educate them for equality. “How come there were multiple men in the room, and no one was like, Hey guys, this is wrong, stop, somebody call the police?” she asks. She talks about the need for education she tells me about “a horrible thing that happened to a 16-year-old girl that got raped by multiple men in Israel,” in the Red Sea resort city of Eilat in August. And it doesn’t necessarily mean that they have to be athletic or physically strong-that too-but that they can be bigger than life.” “And I think it’s so important-and of course it’s ultra-important for me because I’m a mother of two girls-to show them the potential of what they can be. “But we didn’t get this representation,” she says. And for boys-lucky them-they got to experience, since the beginning of the movies, that they were the protagonist, they were the strong ones, they saved the day. “One of the biggest things that I believe is that you can only dream about becoming someone or something after you’ve seen it visually. “Whenever I see this part of the movie, I always get teary-like good, excited tears,” says Gadot (pronounced “Ga-dot”), who is 35. ![]() It’s a dazzling sequence from a technical perspective, with many impossible-looking feats executed on a grand scale, but what stays with you is the sheer athleticism on the part of a very determined-looking little girl. It takes place on Themyscira, the magical island and all-woman city-state that is her birthplace. In the opening scene of Wonder Woman 1984, the child version of the warrior princess Diana Prince (played by 12-year-old Lilly Aspell, a prize-winning show jumper in real life) engages in a lengthy physical contest, a sort of Amazonian Olympics. And it’s so true-she didn’t do anything.”Ĭlothing by CHANEL. And both Jaron and I were looking at her, and we were like, what a healthy perspective. “She said, ‘I don’t like Sleeping Beauty,’ ” says Gadot, “and I asked her why-because it’s a Disney princess who doesn’t like a Disney princess? And she said, ‘Because all she does is fall asleep and the prince comes and kisses her and then it’s the end. But the rest of it she loved, and she is proud of it.”Īlma isn’t a fan of Sleeping Beauty, however. She said, I can’t watch it! Just forward! She couldn’t bear it. “She was very excited,” Gadot says, “but she also couldn’t detach from seeing Ima”- Mother in Hebrew-“battling the bad guys. Last year, when Gadot and her husband, Jaron Varsano, thought Alma was old enough, they showed her the film that made her mother a star: Wonder Woman. This outdoor space, surrounded by a stone wall and overhanging trees, is where she says she likes to go for a little “me time” after her children, Alma, eight, and Maya, three, fall asleep. Gal Gadot is relaxing on the back patio of her home in Tel Aviv. ![]()
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