Gal Gadot Reveals New Detail About Her ‘Wonder Woman’ Audition

Gal Gadot has revealed a new interesting detail about her audition for the role of Wonder Woman.

In a sneak peek from an upcoming Season 7 episode of Variety’s “Actors on Actors,” the “Big Sick” actor Kumail Nanjiani asked Gadot about her audition for the role of Wonder Woman for the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). “It was weird because I didn’t know they were auditioning me for Wonder Woman,” Gadot explained. “[But] I knew I was auditioning for this ‘secret project.’”

When Nanjiani asked if auditionees like Gadot were handed a “magic lasso” and performed with it during the tryout, the 32-year-old actress said that her audition was nothing like that. “I [actually] got scenes from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to do for the audition,” Gadot revealed, referring to Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 neo-noir crime film starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Uma Thurman.

Gadot added that she only found out that she was auditioning for the role of Diana Prince a week before she did a screen test with Ben Affleck, who plays Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, in the DCEU. “One week before I did the camera test with Ben, I was like, ‘What’s going on?’” the Israeli actress recalled. “They told me that they wanted me to fly to Los Angeles and do the camera test. I was like, ‘Great! I will, but what is it?’ And my agent was like, ‘You don’t know? They didn’t tell yet?’ I’m like, ‘No, who knows? Can someone just say something? And then Zack Snyder, our director [in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’], called me and said that it was for Wonder Woman.”

During her appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” last May, Gadot revealed that she learned she got the part after a long flight from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles. “I was by myself. I just landed in Los Angeles,” Gadot shared of when she heard the great news for the first time. “I opened my phone, [and there were] 20 missed phone calls from my agents. … [I called them back and they were like] ‘The part is yours. You are Wonder Woman. But you can’t say anything to anyone.’”

In an interview with W magazine last April, Gadot said that her audition was nerve-wracking but Beyoncé helped her calm her nerves. “Waiting is my enemy No. 1, and I was losing my mind,” Gadot recalled of how she waited for her turn during the audition. “I decided to put on Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls)” [and] I just started to dance, and I let my anxiety go. Thank you, Beyoncé!”

Gadot made her debut as Wonder Woman in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” She then starred in her solo film “Wonder Woman” last summer, and reprised her role in “Justice League,” which opened in theaters earlier this month. Gadot is set to put on her superhero costume again for upcoming films “Wonder Woman 2” and “Justice League 2.”

Variety’s “Actors on Actors” Season 7 will air from Jan. 2 to 4 on PBS SoCal KOCE.