In the opening scene of Wonder Woman 1984, the child version of the warrior princess Diana Prince (played by 12-year-old Lilly Aspell, a prize-winning show jumper in real life) engages in a lengthy physical contest, a sort of Amazonian Olympics.

And it’s so true-she didn’t do anything.”Ĭlothing by CHANEL. And both Jaron and I were looking at her, and we were like, what a healthy perspective. “She said, ‘I don’t like Sleeping Beauty,’ ” says Gadot, “and I asked her why-because it’s a Disney princess who doesn’t like a Disney princess? And she said, ‘Because all she does is fall asleep and the prince comes and kisses her and then it’s the end. But the rest of it she loved, and she is proud of it.”Īlma isn’t a fan of Sleeping Beauty, however. She said, I can’t watch it! Just forward! She couldn’t bear it. “She was very excited,” Gadot says, “but she also couldn’t detach from seeing Ima”- Mother in Hebrew-“battling the bad guys. Last year, when Gadot and her husband, Jaron Varsano, thought Alma was old enough, they showed her the film that made her mother a star: Wonder Woman. This outdoor space, surrounded by a stone wall and overhanging trees, is where she says she likes to go for a little “me time” after her children, Alma, eight, and Maya, three, fall asleep.

Gal Gadot is relaxing on the back patio of her home in Tel Aviv.

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