The first super heroine of Hollywood blockbuster was Miss Israel, served in the army of his country and unwittingly has become a modern icon of feminism.
Few women have won a military medal and a tiara in a beauty contest. Gal
Is the new Wonder Woman is one of them.
Ex-Queen beauty lover motorcycling with reflective tape, former instructor of combat in the Israeli army, at age 30 the girl who dreamed of being a lawyer is conquering the entire planet with a role that has allowed him to not only revive one of the most emblematic figures of comics, but also empower the role of women in a male-dominated industry.
And although their presence is merely secondary in the film Batman v. Superman, many viewers in the Amazon heroine steals the limelight from his two companions. Just like someone wearing reflective vest at night. In fact, many of the criticisms that have been wroth against the film mercilessly agree that the most important moments of the film are when Gadot appears clad in armor of warrior princess.
The Israeli has had no great responsibility to revive the world’s most important symbol of female comics. Perhaps because it was celluloid, beyond his lasso of truth and reflective armbands, its picturesque path makes it a wonder woman of flesh and blood.
The road to Wonder Woman
Gal was born in a small town in Israel. Her exotic features come from a genetic network with German roots, Czech, Polish and Israelis. Gal won the competition and was to participate Ecuador, Miss Universe, where did not have a significant performance and stayed out very early. Although the experience of having participated in Miss Universe could open many, Gadot postponed what could be a successful career in the modeling world for military service in their country. In Israel the law provides that women serve in the army, so it is common to see them clad in fatigues. What is not so usual is that a woman train soldiers in the use of weapons. Gadot did the result of a great job in his first three months in training camps.
He spent two years as a military instructor and when he had finished in the military thought of becoming a lawyer, but fate had other plans.
A casting director was interested in her and recommended her to audition for the coveted role of Bond girl in the delivery Solace. However, he lost in the final stages the role at the hands of the Ukrainian, who, for those coincidences of life, would be competent to play Wonder Woman, but this time the paper went to the hands of Israel. However, the same casting director did not want to lose that magic combination of a true femme fatale-like supermodel. He convinced submitted to another project, the fourth installment of the Fast and Furious series, which Gadot finally made the leap to Hollywood.
His performance in the Fast and Furious saga attracted attraction in the world. People wondered where it came from this new talent that seemed to carry around an entire career in action films. The actress flirted with big roles, but took his talent was Zack Snyder, responsible for conceiving the mega project to film the superhero universe DC. And so it come the opportunity to become the first superhero of the time of the blockbusters of the century. And with its appearance in Batman v. Superman, he remained forever as the first Wonder Woman film.
A female symbol
The emergence of Wonder Woman in a superhero picture almost entirely dominated by men, with few exceptions such as the Black Widow Avengers or X-Men- mutants came at the time when most talked about equal roles in Hollywood.
Just a few months later, Jennifer Lawrence, who also gave birth to a kind of heroine in The Hunger Games, the shouting was taken and reported his anger to learn that there was significantly received less money than their colleagues wearing clothes with reflective material in the film American Hustle, when all the roles were equally important.
Gal has also used his newfound fame as Wonder Woman to focus attention on the inequality of women in film. “There is still much room for more women to enter the industry, not just actresses, also producers, writers and directors. I think we live a very interesting woman in all fields moment. I hope we continue like this, “He told a news conference.