Gal Gadot: meet the new Wonder Woman
The comic-book world has waited decades for Wonder Woman to be given her own feature film, and eyebrows were raised when Gal Gadot, a little-known Israeli actress, won the superhero part. But this martial arts-trained former beauty queen is well up to the challenge
It isn’t easy to pinpoint the exact moment Gal Gadot first realised her powers, but the time she decided not to win Miss Universe seems as good a guess as any.
It was early 2004, a long time before the Israeli actress careered into Hollywood with Fast & Furious, and many moons before ‘Wonder Woman’ would become her personal epithet. The 18-year-old Gadot was mooching around a Tel Aviv shopping mall when a woman stopped her and suggested she enter the Miss Israel contest. Beauty pageants are a big deal over there, so she thought, why not?
‘I had a few months off after school and I reckoned it would be something cool to tell my...
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