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Gal Gadot was dressed to impress for her Vanity Fair photoshoot in a red latex gown.
However, the truly impactful part of her cover story was definitely what Gadot had to say about her role as a female hero in the Wonder Woman franchise. The next film, Wonder Women 1984, will be released Christmas Day.
Keep reading for all she had to say and to check out her cover shoot for yourself!
The photos, taken on a beach in Israel, show Gadot enjoying the ocean while wearing an eye-catching red dress, and the actress looks stunning as always.
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The cover hints at the actual interview with Gadot, in which the actress proved exactly why she is "in a league of her own."
And this magazine isn't the only one to think so. Gadot's co-star, Chris Pine, also praised the actress: "My understanding of Wonder Woman is that she is love incarnate: fierce, strong, compassionate, and uncompromising. That is Gal."
Speaking about the Wonder Woman movies, the actress admits that she gets emotional watching the movie--specifically seeing women be seen as heroes and warriors from the start of the film.
She explained, "Whenever I see this part of the movie, I always get teary—like good, excited tears. One of the biggest things that I believe is that you can only dream about becoming someone or something after you’ve seen it visually. And for boys—lucky them—they got to experience, since the beginning of the movies, that they were the protagonist, they were the strong ones, they saved the day."
The actress continued, "But we didn’t get this representation. And I think it’s so important—and of course it’s ultra-important for me because I’m a mother of two girls—to show them the potential of what they can be. And it doesn’t necessarily mean that they have to be athletic or physically strong—that too—but that they can be bigger than life."
She believes that this representation carries over into real life, but also insists that society needs to step up when it comes to fighting for and achieving true equality.
She tells the magazine, "We have to role-model ourselves to our children and we have to educate them for equality. There is still a long way to go because there’s no true equality yet. If we focus our resources on this type of thing, then real change would happen."
As for what to expect from this next film, Gadot thinks that this second story will go "deeper."
"I think the first film was the birth of a hero, and this time around we wanted to go deeper in a way," she explains, "It’s more about the danger in greed, and I think that it’s very relevant to the era that we’re living in nowadays. It feels like everyone is in a race for more, and when you get what you wanted there’s a new bar—and what’s the price? And do we lose ourselves in this crazy marathon?"
