For Gal Gadot, 35, the work of Wonder Woman 1984 (out Dec. 25) started in January 2018 when L.A.-based, Swedish-born trainer Magnus Lygdback was tasked with getting the actress ready to wield the Lasso of Hestia again.
With the physicality of Gadot’s character firmly established in the fight scenes of 2017’s Wonder Women, training for the Cold War era-set sequel wasn’t required to be as intense and demanding. “Both [director] Patty Jenkins and Gal had a vision of how Wonder Woman should look and they didn’t change much,” Lygdback (who did not work with Gadot on the first Wonder Woman film) tells The Hollywood Reporter.
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