It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane—No, It’s Gal Gadot. For The First Time In Her 75-Year History, Wonder Woman Is Getting Her Very Own Big-Budget Blockbuster This Summer, Created By A Slew Of Women Behind The Scenes, Proving Anything Hollywood Bros Can Do, Women Can Do Just As Damn Well. Marie Claire Visits The Set Of The Most Kick-Ass Flick This Year
Batman and Superman, both towering over six feet tall with the requisite slicked-back hair, the smug grins, and the real-life muscles of an inflatable superhero costume, are onstage. It’s the first time these two superdudes have stood together shoulder to shoulder for the world to see—kind of a big deal for comic-book nerds. But that’s not why everyone else in the room is screaming like tweens at a Justin Bieber concert. The reason for the thunderous sound of a gajillion DC Comics diehards? The 5'10" brunette in the black dress. Her name is Wonder Woman, er, Gal Gadot, and she was all anyone could talk about at Comic-Con 2014, when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was announced. (Wonder Woman would make her silver screen debut in the highly anticipated 2016 blockbuster.) The actress had served two years in the Israeli Defense Forces and competed for Miss Universe, but Wonder Woman hadn’t even lassoed any bad guys yet.
Nineteen months later, the sun is about to go down over the Royal Army Base an hour outside London, and Gadot has just arrived on the Wonder Woman set from her hair-and-makeup trailer. She looks every bit an Amazon warrior: tall and commanding even in the black puffy coat covering up her metallic red-and-blue costume, long dark brown locks pinned up and tucked under a blue bandanna. She smiles wide and strides across the field toward the movie’s director, Patty Jenkins, who has just finished running through moves with the fight choreographer and is waiting for the dark to settle in to shoot. Because the temperature will drop to the low 30s, Jenkins is bundled in a ridiculously huge blue North Face jacket, matching pants, and snow boots.
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