![]() “The thing that I really noticed was they were very judgmental and being very critical about the way that I looked,” she says. ![]() When news leaked out that Gadot had been cast as Wonder Woman, not everyone in the DC Comics fan-base was thrilled - in fact, quite a lot of “trolls,” as she calls them, were critical of her selection. The Complex Gender Politics of the 'Wonder Woman' Movie Superman - and she was ecstatic because of “everything that represents.” Gadot explains, “For me it was like, ‘Oh, my God, that was my dream role!'” Snyder finally told her that she was being considered for the part of Wonder Woman - at that point only in Batman v. “I’m like, ‘What the fuck is going on?'” she remembers. Superman: Dawn of Justice and was asked to come back to town to do a camera test opposite Ben Affleck. A few weeks later, she received a call, was told that she was being considered for a role in Batman v. She showed up, read for director Zack Snyder and then flew back to Israel. asked her to audition for a secret project. “I was on the verge of quitting everything and just going back to Israel.” But a week before the date listed on what she expected to be her final return ticket from Hollywood, Warner Bros. If it’s not going to work, why push it?'” she recalls. “It just came to a point where I was like, ‘I don’t want to do this to my family. “It was always me and ‘the big name.'” The “rejection” proved hard for her and she felt increasing “pressure,” particularly because each audition required her, her husband and her young daughter to commute from Israel to Hollywood. “I had so many almosts for big, great things, but I was never big enough of a name,” she says, citing as an example the part that Charlize Theron ultimately played in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. But outside of the Fast and the Furious opportunities, Gadot was struggling to find traction in Hollywood.
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