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Wonder Woman: Gal Gadot on Becoming Badass Female Action Hero. Wonder Woman herself is about to bless my unborn child. Can I?" she asks, before spreading her long fingers around my pregnant belly. Her hands feel warm and maternal. She holds my gaze, unwavering.

Girl or boy?" she asks. Girl," I tell her. Her smile widens. Being a woman is a strength," she says. In so many ways."Gal Gadot photographed in Los Angeles on July 1. Peggy Sirota. Peggy Sirota for Rolling Stone.

Oddly, this is not a dream; it's a lunch at the Chateau Marmont. 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. But it's hard not to see elements of the superheroic in the way she just is. Never mind that she was up at 5 a. Dude, it's exhausting, but it's the best"); in person, her aura hovers somewhere between Earth mother and glamazon. Her accent is Bond- worthy and cloaked in the smokiness of her voice. 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.

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. Sharknado Full Movie. I like it when it's calm and there's a harmonic type of atmosphere," she tells me.

And later: "You should find your neutral place with yourself." In her presence, these things seem possible, even probable. Or, at least possible, if you're her.

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 "1. 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. Exactly one boob. So what are you talking about here?

Me having small boobs and small ass? That will make all the difference.' " Or the way she braved a London winter, shooting 1.

Or, most impressively, the way she filmed Wonder Woman reshoots and the next installment of the DC Comics franchise (Justice League, out this fall) while pregnant with her second child, morning sickness be damned. We cut open the costume and had this green screen on my stomach," she says. It was funny as hell – Wonder Woman with a bump." In fact, Gadot's bump was just one of the complications visited upon the Justice League production team. After a family tragedy, director Zack Snyder stepped down, leaving the movie in the hands of The Avengers' Joss Whedon, and rumors of a vast overhaul were all but confirmed when co- star Ben Affleck described the result as "an interesting product of two directors." But, true to form, Gadot doesn't buy in to the controversy.

Texarkana, Texas and Arkansas newspaper. Includes news, sports, opinion, and local information. Wonder has 403,101 ratings and 45,371 reviews. Wendy Darling said: Wonder is one of those rare books that makes you want to hug everyone in it so tightly.

To wonder if WB will reset the DC Extended Universe is to wonder if it actually has a cinematic universe in the first place. Aquaman is much too close to being.

Look," she says. "Joss, to my understanding, was Zack's choice to finish the movie. And the tone can't be completely different because the movie was already shot. Joss is just fine- tuning." It is, in part, Gadot's innate unflappability that helped Wonder Woman not just vastly outperform anyone's wildest expectations, but also almost singlehandedly save the floundering DC Comics universe. To date, the movie has earned more than $4.

It is currently the highest- grossing live- action film ever directed by a woman. In other words, the film has kicked ass, Wonder Woman- style. It just shows that the world was ready for a female- driven action movie," says Gadot.

Or even if it wasn't then, she's made sure that it is now. Landing a lead in a tent- pole franchise would have been a coup for any young actor, of course. When you're a beginner, you get excited about having a job," says Gadot. That's where I was." But Wonder Woman wasn't just any leading role. It was a role that feminists had long been jones- ing for – as every major male superhero got trotted out in big- screen prequels and sequels galore – and one with a history that extended far beyond the mere symbolism of a female superhero.

She's been a suffragist, a soldier and a sex symbol. After 75 years she's finally getting her own movie. Why we need Wonder Woman now.

After being cast, Gadot turned to the Warner Bros. Wonder Woman was the brainchild of William Marston, a psychologist who not only helped invent the lie detector and lived in a polyamorous household with his wife (whom he'd met in middle school), his girlfriend (who'd been his student) and their four children (two per woman), but who also believed that women were not only equal to men, but probably superior. Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world," he is noted as saying in Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman. And as Lepore points out, "In the first story, Wonder Woman comes to the United States to fight for women's rights, because this is the last bastion of possibility of equal rights for women." None of this history was lost on Gadot. People always ask me, 'Are you a feminist?' And I find the question surprising, because I think, 'Yes, of course.

Every woman, every man, everyone should be a feminist. Because whoever is not a feminist is a sexist.' " She maintains that she and her younger sister were taught "to believe that we're capable, to value ourselves" as they grew up in Rosh Ha'ayin, a small city in the center of Israel, where their dad worked as an engineer and their mom was a phys- ed teacher. I had a very sheltered kind of life," Gadot says. There was no TV- watching. It was always 'Take a ball and go play.' " Which suited her just fine.

In general, I was a good girl, a good student, a pleaser, and I was a tomboy. Always with wounds and scratches on my knees."Despite these blemishes, Gadot had gotten offers to model, but opted instead to work for Burger King. I was like, 'Posing for money? Ugh, it's not for me.' " But in the few months she had off between graduating from high school and serving her two mandatory years in the Israel Defense Forces, her mom and a friend applied on her behalf for the Miss Israel pageant. When she found out she'd gotten in, "I told myself, 'I'm just gonna do this. They're gonna fly us to Europe, and I'm gonna get to tell my grandchildren that Grandmom did the Miss Israel thing.' Little did I know that I would win." Or that winning would land her in the Miss Universe pageant ("It's funny now that I say it. It sounds so bizarre, like a different life"), which totally freaked her out.

I knew that I did not want to win Miss Universe. It wasn't my thing. For an 1. 8- year- old, it looked like too much responsibility." So she decided to deliberately tank in the competition, pretending she didn't speak English, wearing the wrong things. She didn't make the top 2.

I lost majorly," she happily declares. I victoriously lost."She was Israel’s Miss Universe contestant as a teen. Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty. When her unexpected reign as Miss Israel ended, she was assigned to be a combat trainer in the IDF, reporting daily at 5 a.