![]() 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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