Gal Gadot has officially stepped down from her role as Wonder Woman, but not before calling out James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe over the cancellation of Wonder Woman 3 and the treatment of former DC stars like Henry Cavill’s Superman.
Speaking during an interview with the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, Gadot explained how she was cut from the DCU, despite Gunn and Safran promising to develop Wonder Woman 3 with her as the lead. When asked if there was a clear moment when the studio told her about the sequel’s cancellation, Gadot explained that she was told the opposite. “They were like, ‘We’re going to develop [the third Wonder Woman film] with you, but I saw the way everybody else was handled, right?”
She then went on to comment about how the studio treated the rest of the previous DC Universe stars, notably Cavill, who was initially announced to be reprising his role as Clark Kent in 2022, only for the studio to switch gears just a few months later, with David Corenswet eventually taking on the role.
“The Henry [Cavill] situation was not handled elegantly, to say the least. Patty [Jenkins] was not handled elegantly,” she explained, but also mentioned that despite this, there was no bad blood between her and the studio, and that she was still grateful for the chance to take on the role of Wonder Woman.
“I feel like we’re all adults, and it’s all good. And it’s not even about them. They are there, and they’re there to do what they believe in, and it’s all good,” she continued. “I am so grateful I got the opportunity to wear these boots and have the character be so celebrated. I can only wish whoever is next comes pure to this journey. This character means so much to so many of us. It was never mine. I was always just a vessel. This is Hollywood.”
Gadot made her debut as Diana Prince in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, before starring in her own film in 2017’s Wonder Woman, which would go on to receive a 2020 sequel, Wonder Woman 1984. Now, six years later, the star explains that even if the DCU were to develop a third film, she wouldn’t star in it, even if she was asked.
“For me to go do another Wonder Woman, I am not sure I would at this point in my life with four children and different schools and all of that,” she said. “To check out from all of them for such a long period of time, it doesn’t work for my life anymore at this point.”
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