‘Snow White’ Star Gal Gadot on Playing Wonder Woman and Speaking Out About Israel: ‘I Had to Advocate for the Hostages’

variety.com:

Todd Gilchrist The first time Gal Gadot visited the Hollywood Walk of Fame almost two decades ago, she had a premonition of her future in entertainment. “Between Madame Tussauds and the Hollywood stars, I remember walking there for the first time when I was 23 and seeing people dressed like superheroes,” she remembers. “And they had Wonder Woman there!” On March 18, Gadot will be there again, and this time she’ll receive her own star.

But even after donning Wonder Woman’s red, black and gold costume multiple times on film — amid delivering a dozen other movie-star turns — the Israeli-born actress seems no less gobsmacked at the prospect of being immortalized by the honor. “I think that it’s going to take me time before I even realize that it’s real,” she tells Variety. “I don’t think that ever in my life I would dream to be able to go through the journey that I’m going through, so I’m very, very humbled and grateful and excited.” As inevitable as her ascent may now seem, Gadot says that an acting career was anything but a foregone conclusion. “I was a dancer for 12 years, but acting was never something that I did,” she says. “After I graduated, I went to study law and as a side job, I was doing some modeling.

And one thing led to the other and a casting director for James Bond wanted to test me for the Bond girl [in ‘Quantum of Solace’].” She didn’t get the part, but got bitten by the acting bug during the process of auditioning.