It is hard to think of anyone else playing Wonder Woman instead of Gal Gadot but, the actress nearly quit acting altogether.
Godot recently appeared on The Tonight Show and told host Jimmy Fallon about how she almost gave up on her acting career just before auditioning for Batman v. Superman:
“This profession, the rejection…oh dude, it’s tough. I had so many ‘almosts,’ and another camera test, and ‘it’s almost mine,’ and another role, and another role, and I was telling my husband, ‘I’m not sure how long I can take it, dragging my family to Los Angeles, doing this.’ On that same trip when we were in Los Angeles, I got a phone call from Zack Snyder, who wanted to audition me for this secret role. I was like, ‘OK, sure, I’ll do that.’…
The audition went great, I went back to Israel to shoot an Israeli movie, and I didn’t know if I wanted to continue acting afterwards. Anyway, I’m in Israel, I get a phone call, they tell me that they want to do a camera test – I’m like, ‘Again? Another camera test? Another almost, almost?’ And I said, ‘OK, whatever. What am I testing for? What’s the part?’ And my agent goes, ‘They didn’t tell you?’ And I’m like, ‘No.’ So no one knows what I’m going to be…
So Zack called me two days later and he was like, ‘I don’t know if you have this character in Israel, if she’s big or not, but did you ever hear about Wonder Woman?’ And I was like [mimes fainting].”
Before becoming the first person to ever play Wonder Woman in a live-action movie, Godot spent a few years in several franchises including the Fast and Furious franchise.
I’m glad she ended up sticking with it, it just goes to show that hard work and dedication almost always pays off.
Wonder Woman arrives in Theaters on June 2, 2017.
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