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THE INTERVIEW

“Just look at Gal Gadot when she
smiles or when she meets somebody
and shakes their hand. That is the
embodiment of Wonder Woman. She
is so beautiful and powerful, but kind
and generous and thoughtful. She’s
just an amazing person.”

– Patty Jenkins

I In early December 2013, Gadot was cast as Diana
Prince, Wonder Woman, in the superhero film
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, released
in 2016. To provide authenticity and round out
her role as Diana Prince, Gadot obtained further training
in swordsmanship, Kung Fu, kickboxing, Capoeira and
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Audiences loved her and a Wonder
Woman character movie deal for three more films has taken
her to the next level of show business: the stratosphere.

The director of the movie Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins,
had inspired vision when casting the feisty Gadot and
providing a script that created a superhero women as well
as men could love. Expertly portrayed by Gadot throughout
the film, she is a superhero who, as Tim Grierson in Rolling
Stone so succinctly put it, rejects the macho superhero
premise and promotes a philosophy that even though “…
men think they know best about how the world works –
whether it be warfare or social niceties – that doesn’t
necessarily make it so.”

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