Gal Gadot gave one of her most candid interviews ever on the Channel Keshet 12 program, The A Talks, in which the interviewers are on the autism spectrum.
The rules of this celebrity-interview program are that no question is off-limits and that the telegenic autistic interviewers speak in their own unique way. One read Gadot a poem he wrote about her and another spoke through a puppet.
The personable interviewee seemed charmed and disarmed by her interviewers, and although her dark brown locks were tied back in a bun, she figuratively let down her hair.
Asked how she felt when her last movie, Snow White, “was a major flop,” and whether she was disappointed or angry, she said, “First of all, I have to say that I really enjoyed filming this movie.”
Pressed to discuss her relationship with her co-star, Rachel Zegler, who was reportedly cool to Gadot because she is Israeli, she said, “I even enjoyed working with Rachel Zegler. We laughed, we talked, and it was fun. I was sure that this movie was going to be a huge success, and then October 7 happened, and what's happening in all kinds of industries, and also in Hollywood, is that there's a lot of pressure on celebrities to speak out against Israel."
You can always explain and try to give people in the world a context about what's happening and what the reality is here, but in the end, people decide for themselves. I was disappointed that the movie was greatly affected by that and didn't do well at the box office."
Asked whether there was any part of her career she would erase if she could, she answered, "What I hated and didn't enjoy at all was being on Entourage, an American series. Someone there behaved inappropriately, and it got to the point where I left the set and stopped working with them.”
Responding to a question about whether she felt that she was successful just by chance, she said, “I used to think that way. I would say that in a moment someone would find out that I wasn't really an actress, wasn't really talented, that everything was fake, and in a second this bubble was going to burst."
The interviewer asked how to cope with this feeling, and she answered, “Run forward. Even if you fall, fail, or face bad reviews -- just keep moving forward. As I continued and got more roles and experience, I built up my personal confidence in who I am and what I'm worth."
The challenge of balancing a career, a wife, and a mother to four daughters
This answer is typical of the entire interview, as she spoke honestly about the challenges of balancing her career with being a wife and mother to four daughters, about her friendship with actress Rotem Sela, who hosts the program, and about her health crisis, when she suffered a massive blood clot in her brain during her fourth pregnancy. Her daughter Ori was born in 2024 in an emergency C-section as Gadot underwent surgery to remove the clot.
“Suddenly, I understood what it means to be scared to death,” she said.
She said that Sela and other girlfriends helped her recover.
While she spoke about being “a proud Israeli,” she said she did not feel it was appropriate to wear a yellow-ribbon pin calling for the release of the hostages in Gaza at award-show ceremonies: “It's very complex, and it felt wrong to wear the pin there when I came to work. It could have been a mistake. I'm doing the best I can.”
One interviewer wanted to know whether there are missile attacks in America, and she said no, but said that despite the frequent warning sirens here, she feels safer in Israel. Asked whether it is “dangerous” to be Gal Gadot, she said, “It is much more complex to be an Israeli known abroad today.”
Responding to a question about whether it bothered her that her daughters “weren’t really Israeli,” she said that they were, and that every time they visited Israel, they immediately started using Israeli slang. She added that she was building a big house in Israel and that the family might return when her daughters were old enough to serve in the army.