Gal Gadot

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Gal Gadot was ready to walk away from show business before she teamed up with director Patty Jenkins on the blockbuster movie Wonder Woman, which became a cultural phenomenon and made Gadot a role model for women and girls around the world. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with Gadot for a virtual conversation about the film’s highly-anticipated sequel, Wonder Woman 1984.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.1	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.6	Very excited to bring you this week's episode with Gau de Dut, who is Wonder Woman.
0:14.7	Of course, the sequel, Wonder Woman 1984 hit theaters on Christmas Day.
0:21.3	And Gau and I got together a few days beforehand to talk about that movie, to talk about her
0:26.0	life since it absolutely exploded with the like $900 million success of the first Wonder Woman
0:32.8	movie three years ago.
0:34.4	The two of us actually got together and talked on the back end of that.
0:38.2	About three years ago, she got through the summer when the movie blew up, her life
0:42.1	changed forever.
0:44.0	If you don't know about Gau, she's Israeli.
0:47.0	She was a beauty queen.
0:48.2	She was Miss Israel.
0:50.0	She went to the Miss USA pageant and swears on her life that she sabotaged herself because
0:56.2	she didn't want to win.
0:57.6	She wasn't saying she was going to win.
0:59.9	She just wanted to make sure she didn't win so she pretended she didn't speak English.
1:03.8	That's back in our first interview if you want to go into the archives and listen to that
1:06.8	one.
1:07.8	So now we got together again, as I said a few days ago, little different this time.
1:12.2	These interviews are being done remotely.
1:14.4	So I'm at home, basically in a garage, she is somewhere in LA doing rounds of interviews.
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