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I was very touched and grateful for the way people received me Gal Gadot reflects on the fan reaction to her portrayal of Wonder Woman

“I hope it’s a film that satisfies on every level,” Jenkins, 46, optimistically predicted in March. “That’s what I’m aiming for. I want something that’s a great journey, that makes you fall in love with Wonder Woman, that has a good love story and is thrilling and exciting. I’m hoping that it hits a lot of different marks.”

It was an experience, Gadot told us in November, that’s still continuing.

“It’s been incredible,” she enthused. “I started to portray this character three years ago and I feel like I’ve been going non-stop since then. Since its release, I’ve done Q&A’s and screenings — all for Wonder Woman! When I first saw the movie, I told Patty that she’d done a magnificent job. She’s such an amazing conductor and she managed to create something that’s really unique and I’m proud to be a part of that. I’m super grateful and in my wildest dreams I never thought that we’d get the reaction and the response that we’re getting.”

“On the one hand, I always believed that a good Wonder Woman movie could be so much more successful than people might have thought,” Jenkins reflected when we caught up with her in September. “But the way that our particular film was embraced, not only as a Wonder Woman movie, has been so stunning and magical.”

Gadot, a former soldier in the Israeli army and the winner of the 2004 Miss Israel pageant, got her big break playing Giselle in the Fast and Furious series. She also simultaneously appeared in Israeli TV shows and films before making her big leap to Hollywood as Wonder Woman in last year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.