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| Israeli actor, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. |
Gal
Gadot
14 things you didn’t know about Gal Gadot
By Nicky Blackburn
She’s taken the world by storm as
Wonder Woman, which looks to bring in $200m. on its opening weekend.
Here are some fun facts about this fabulous Israeli actress.
1. In Hebrew,
Gal Gadot’s first name means “wave” and her surname means “riverbanks.”
2. Gal Gadot
was born in Rosh Ha’ayin, and her maternal grandparents were Holocaust
survivors.
3. At the age
of 18, Gadot won the Miss Israel beauty pageant. She then went on to compete in
Miss Universe in 2004, but was so reluctant to win that she turned up late for
events, wore the wrong kind of evening wear, and even pretended that she
couldn’t speak English.
4. Gadot
carried out two years of service as a combat instructor in the Israel Defense
Forces.
It was her
military background and knowledge of weapons that helped her get her breakout
role as Gisele in “Fast & Furious.”
In 2009, Justin Lin, the director of
“Fast & Furious,” thought her fighting spirit was so obvious that he added
to her character’s back story by making her a Mossad agent.
5. After the
army, Gadot went on to study law and international relations.
A casting director called her to
audition for the part of Bond girl Camille Montes in “Quantum of Solace,” but
initially Gadot wasn’t interested because she thought she was too serious to
act in movies.
She didn’t get
the role, but the same casting director hired her for “Fast & Furious.”
6. Gadot, who
rides a black 2006 Ducati Monster-S2R motorbike, performed her own stunts in
the “Fast & Furious” films.
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| Gal Gadot at the Los Angeles premiere of Wonder Woman. |
7. When Gadot
auditioned for the role of Wonder Woman, she had no idea what the job was, and
only found out two weeks later, when she was told she had the role.
8. Before the
auditions, Gadot was one of a few actresses waiting for a camera test. She was
told to wait in her trailer until she was called.
The waiting was making her anxious, so
she listened to Beyoncé’s song, “Who run the world? Girls!” “I just started to
dance, and I let my anxiety go.
Thank you, Beyoncé!” she said in an
interview in W Magazine earlier this year.
9. To train for
the role of Wonder Woman, Gadot received lessons in swordsmanship, Kung Fu,
kickboxing, capoeira and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
10. Gadot’s
first outing as Wonder Woman came in the movie “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,”
in 2016. The film was widely panned by the critics, but almost all agreed that
Gadot was the best part of the film.
11. Gadot’s
film “Wonder Woman” is the first superhero movie in over a decade to feature a
female in the title role.
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“We
are proud of you, Gal Gadot, our Wonder Woman.”
A
message lights up Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Center. |
13. Ahead of
the Israeli premiere of the film, the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv was lit up to
honor Gadot. The towers were illuminated with the message: “We are proud of
you, Gal Gadot, our Wonder Woman.”
14. Israeli
advertising tech startup Tarkey, which
tracks Internet chatter, says that
mentions of Gadot online are 95 percent positive, making her “unrivaled as the
most loved Israeli in the world.”
On the IMDB’s ranking of most popular
industry people born in Israel, she also currently outranks the Oscar winner
Natalie Portman, who was born in Jerusalem.
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