[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2256″ img_size=”1000×500″ add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]There’s no doubt that one of the big pulls of Ralph Breaks the Internet, besides it being the sequel to the highly successful Wreck-It Ralph; was that Wonder Woman herself was attached to the project. As the cool and edgy street racer Shank, Gal Gadot is transformed to an animated version of herself on screen and it turns out that originally the character was just meant to be someone “like” Gadot, until directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston decided to just shoot for trying to get Gadot to join.
“[We flew to London] quite a few times,” Moore began. “It started as just throwing out this idea of, ‘Well Shank is supposed to be this cool big sister to Vanellope,’ but who could play that? Undeniably the coolest person. And we’re like, ‘Well, Gal Gadot.’ Someone in the room was like, ‘Good luck with that!’ We’re delusional, we’ll try, it doesn’t hurt to try. So we wrote her a letter and told her about the story and sent the script over to her, talked to her on the phone after she read the letter, and very quickly she decided, ‘Okay, I like this! There’s a song in it and I get to sing, so I’m in.'”
“It reminds me,” Johnston added, “when we [initially] said that, we said ‘A Gal Gadot type.’ And with the song we were like, ‘an Alan Menken-type song.’ And then we were just like, ‘Wait, why don’t we just get the real ones?’ It shockingly worked and here we are.”
You can catch Gal Gadot in Ralph Breaks the Internet, now in theaters.
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