She learned she had gotten the part via a voicemail from her agent that she listened to on a plane that had just landed in Los Angeles after a 15-hour flight from Tel Aviv.
In perhaps the ultimate example of a woman doing the same job as a man but, figuratively, “backwards, and in heels,” Gadot wielded Wonder Woman’s weapons while wearing a skimpy outfit and platform boots, and she did so in re-shoots while five months pregnant with her second child.
The actress tells Fallon that most of those scenes were shot in close-up, but for wide shots, a green triangular cloth was placed over her belly so that it could be edited in post-production.
“On close-up I looked very much like Wonder Woman,” says Gadot. “On wide shots I looked very funny, like Wonder Woman pregnant with Kermit the Frog.”
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