“You know, one of the people I really admire is Charlie Kaufman,” she says of the celebrated screenwriter, director, and novelist. She got that part because the director, Justin Lin, was taken by the fact that she knew her way around a military weapon. She didn’t get the part, but the casting director remembered her, which is how she wound up auditioning for 2009’s Fast & Furious. One day, a casting director contacted her agent and asked her to audition for the Bond-girl role in Quantum of Solace. Her military service complete and at loose ends, she enrolled in law school in Tel Aviv and started modeling. While still a soldier, she met Jaron Varsano, a real estate developer 10 years her senior whom she married in 2008. At 18, she won the 2004 Miss Israel pageant, competed in Miss Universe that year in Ecuador, and then fulfilled two years of mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces as a combat fitness instructor. And yet her entire career trajectory has been one of almost-didn’t-happen serendipity. Though it may have seemed like she appeared out of nowhere, fully formed, in the summer of 2017 as the star of Wonder Woman, an instant hit and box-office juggernaut that grossed over $800 million worldwide, Gadot has been making movies for more than a decade, most notably as the character Gisele in four films from the Fast & Furious franchise. The Adele encounter is a reminder: This is, in point of fact, not a hang with some cool Israeli chick. I’d interviewed her several years ago, and once we figured it all out, Gadot and I stood next to her while she pedaled away, talking about the Vogue cover-story treatment. It was the newly slender Adele, whom I didn’t recognize until she let loose with one of those honking laughs. Leaving the gym earlier, Gadot stopped to talk to a woman with long blonde hair who looked like she’d just woken up and was slowly getting her 10 minutes of cardio in before the real workout began. Everything must be planned, strategized, and for a spontaneous creature like Gadot, it can be constraining. You live at the top of one of those famous hills with a view of the world-a dream come true-but driving all the way down and back up for a carton of milk can take an hour. before you find your tribe and your rhythm-even ( especially) for a newly minted movie star-can be alienating. How do you say in English? Eat the cake and leave it whole? Eat the cake and…. And all of our neighbors are our friends.” Gadot sighs wistfully. Five minutes walking to the gelato place, five minutes to the beach, five minutes to our cousins’ house. But she does relate this story, about how she came back from Israel recently and on the endless drive from LAX to her house in the Hollywood Hills, her eight-year-old daughter, Alma, said, “You know what I like about home in Israel? Everything is five minutes away. “You can’t walk anywhere here,” she says, but that is the only complaint she will lodge because complaining is not her style. In many ways, the success of Wonder Woman has stranded Gadot in Los Angeles, a 15-hour flight from home. Take it easy next week! “Okay, Ema,” she says, and they blow kisses to each other. Are you okay? How was yesterday? Don’t work too hard. “Just a second-that’s my mom in Israel, where it’s 8 p.m., and this is literally the only window I have to talk to her.” She touches the screen and speaks in Hebrew-one mother to another. “It’s like driving an iPhone.” Suddenly, a deep, otherworldly sound. “The more successful I get, the more I want to plant my roots in and focus on the important things in life” Indeed, it feels wrong to impose any sort of agenda, anything so uptight as an interview. Even as she goes about the business of a hectic, two-kid, big-career life-maneuvering her sleek Tesla (toys on the floor, half-eaten sandwich on the seat) through the precincts of show business (Hollywood to Burbank to Beverly Hills and back again)-she manages to make it seem like she’s just meandering on a Sunday afternoon. She is the coolest of customers, so unperturbed that you get a kind of contact high: Anxieties dissipate, defenses drop, tensions drain. SPENDING TIME WITH GAL GADOT is an exercise in nonchalance. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, May 2020 Hair, Renato Campora makeup, Sabrina Bedrani. To get this look, try: PhotoReady Candid Glow Moisture Glow Foundation in Creme Brulee, PhotoReady Candid Antioxidant Concealer in Bisque, PhotoReady Instant Cheek Maker in Sugarplum, So Fierce! Mascara in Black, Colorstay Browlights in Soft Black, Super Lustrous The Luscious Mattes Lipstick in If I Want To.
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