Gal Gadot: 'Bisexual Wonder Woman 'makes sense'
Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot is open to the character having same sex relationships on screen.
Greg Rucka, a long-time writer on the Wonder Woman comic books recently said he believed the character would have had all-female relationships due to her mythic homeland Themyscira, being entirely populated by women.
And Gal, 31, says she also believes her version of the character
could be bisexual.
"She's a woman who loves people for who they are," the Israeli star
tells Variety magazine. "She can be bisexual. She loves people for
their hearts."
However the star says Wonder Woman, nor her alter ego Diana Prince,
will get intimate with a woman in next year's (17) standalone
movie.
"It's not something we've explored," she explains. "It never came
to the table, but when you talk theoretically about all the women
on Themyscira and how many years she was there, then what he said
makes sense. In this movie she does not experience any bisexual
relationships."
The new movie, which will tell Wonder Woman's origin story and
features Star Trek actor Chris Pine as her love interest, male
fighter pilot Steve Trevor, is to be directed by a female
filmmaker, Patty Jenkins.
And Gal feels Patty's gender might make it easier to tell the story
of the Amazonian princess turned superhero.
"Maybe because we're telling a story of a girl growing up and
becoming a woman, it's easier for it to be told by someone who was
once a girl and became a woman," she says.
"I feel like Patty Jenkins was the right person for the movie
because she was the right person for the movie. She knew exactly
how she wanted to tell her story. She knew exactly what she wanted
to get. She's brilliant and smart and so passionate."
Wonder Woman is scheduled for release in June 2017, with the
character also teaming up with Henry Cavill's Superman and Ben
Affleck's Batman in Justice League, due out next November (17).