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11 surprising things you didn't know about Gal Gadot
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Gal
Gadot is an Israeli actress who is known for her role in
2017's "Wonder Woman."
The actress became Miss Israel in 2004 and she competed in
Miss
Universe that same year.
Gadot served for two years in the Israel Defense Force as a
combat trainer and she's said her military background helped her
land some acting roles.
Best known for her role in 2017's
"Wonder Woman," Gal Gadot has been on TV shows and in movies for
years. She's also a model, a pageant winner, and a martial
artist.
Gadot tends to live her life out
of the spotlight and there are a lot of fascinating things you
might not know about her and her past.
Here are some things you might
not have known about Gal Gadot.
The actress got her start in modeling as a reluctant pageant contestant.
Back in 2004, the
then-18-year-old Gadot was crowned Miss
Israel.
"I was 18, I just graduated high
school and I had some time in between going to the army," she
told the publication. "My mom figured, 'Hey, why don't I send
your photo, you finished school and this like a proper pageant,'
whatever."
She also said she didn't actually
want to win the pageant.
"I got in and I never thought I
would win and then I won and then it scared me," she continued.
"I was like, 'What? Miss Israel? All the responsibility of being
Miss Israel?'"
She said she was scared she'd win when she ran for Miss Universe that same year.
"When I went to Miss Universe, I
rebelled. I was afraid I might get picked again," she said
in an interview with
Glamour. "I showed up
late. I came without gowns. They tell you to come to breakfast in
a gown. I was like, 'No way am I having breakfast in a gown!' Who
needs to wear an evening gown at 10:30 a.m.?'"
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Before she became an actress, she was studying law.
"If things had gone according to
my plans, I'd be a lawyer," Gadot said in a
March 2016 interview with
Glamour. "I never
dreamt of being an actress."
Her first film audition was for a part in "Quantum of Solace." She didn't get it but it helped her land a role in "The Fast and the Furious."
In 2016 she told
Glamour that when was in school, a casting director for
"Quantum of Solace" saw her modeling card and pulled her in for
an audition. It was for the role of Camille.
Although Olga Kurylenko got the part instead,
Gadot said she began taking acting lessons after her
audition. The same
director would later give her her big break as Gisele Yashar in
"The Fast and the Furious" franchise.
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Gadot served for two years in the Israel Defense Force as a combat trainer.
As an Israeli citizen, the star
served her requisite two years in the army during the 2006
Israel-Hezbollah War. Her role was as a combat
trainer.
She said her military background helped her land a role in "The Fast and the Furious."
In a
2011 interview with
Forward, the star said
that her military background helped her land the role of
Gisele.
She told the publication that the
film's director Justin Lin really liked that she had been in the
Israeli military. "He wanted to use my knowledge of weapons," she
told the publication.
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Her first onscreen break was on a short-lived Israeli drama called "Bubot."
According to IMDb, the 2007 show was about conspiracies and
love in the modeling world. Gadot played Miriam "Merry" Elkayam.
The show lasted for just one year.
Before being cast as Diana Prince, Gadot appeared on a 2009 episode of "Entourage" as a woman named Lisa.
And in 2010 she appeared as Mark
Wahlberg's girlfriend in "Date Night" and
alongside Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in "Knight &
Day."
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Before landing her role in "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice," she said she almost quit acting.
In a
2017
interview with Today,
per People, Gadot said that she "was as close as it
gets" to quitting acting and going back to law school before she
got the call to try out for "Batman v. Superman."
"There's so much 'no,'" she told
the publication. "There's so much rejection in this world that I
thought, 'Maybe it's not for me … maybe I should go back to law
school instead of dragging my family with me.'"
She said she gained around 17 pounds of muscle while training for the role of Wonder Woman.
In a 2016 interview
with Glamour, the actress said she gained about 17 pounds of
muscle while training for her role in "Wonder Woman." She said
she feels stronger and like her posture is better because of it.
During an appearance on "Live
With Ryan and Kelly," the star said that even her army training did
not prepare her for the grueling training it took to become
Wonder Woman.
"I was training six months prior
to the shoots and six hours a day I did two hours of gym work,
two hours of fight choreography, and one and a half hour [to] two
hours [of] horseback riding … It was a lot more intense [than the
army] by far," she told the hosts.
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Gadot has said she's a fan of motorcycles but gave them up when she became a mother.
"I enjoy doing my own stunts. I
love being active and physical. I used to dance which was great
training but I also loved motorcycles," she said in a
2015 interview with Elle. However, she told the publication she
"thought it best to give them up when [she] became a
mother."
She has two daughters, Maya and Alma, with her husband
Yaron Versano.
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