


You would go in the afternoon to see friends, you'd just walk to their house and knock on the door and ask for a play date. "I was brought up in a very lovely, naive neighbourhood," Gadot says. I like it when people don't take themselves too seriously. Gadot's parents – a gym teacher and an engineer – were both born in Israel to Holocaust survivors on her mother's side. Gadot is married to businessman Jaron Varsano and the Tel Aviv-based couple have a four-year-old daughter, Alma. 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. The group of foster children will have some major challenges ahead of them, but it's evident that they'll come together to form an incredibly powerful unit as they take on a trio of terrifying new bad guys.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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More so than anything, even on top of Wonder Woman and Helen Mirren, Billy's family will be back in full force after fully realizing their powers at the end of the original movie. The references to the Fast & Furious films also make this moment even funnier considering she's played roles in three movies from that series, once again showing how Billy is still just a kid. Considering that Billy is still only a teenager, using Wonder Woman could be the Wizard's way of trying to get the young man's attention as he's living his life to prepare him for what's coming for his super alter-ego.įans also get a sense of just how intimidating Helen Mirren's new villain will be as the Hollywood legend makes her first appearance in a superhero movie. Wonder Woman Invading Billy Batson's Mind?īased on this footage, it's unclear if Gal Gadot's actual Wonder Woman will be involved in the core plot of Shazam! 2.
