When you see Gal Gadot kicking arse (again) as Wonder Woman later this winter, you should try to remember there’s a pretty good chance that you’re seeing the actress doing her crazy stunts five months pregnant.
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Last November, Gadot showed up on set near London in her Wonder Woman costume prepared to do a number of reshoots necessary for the film, standard movie-making procedure. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gadot described how the entire process was relatively easy when it came to close-up shots involving her face… but anything else was more difficult, as her pregnancy was a visually obvious and impossible to hide behind a shield.
Since she had to wear Wonder Woman’s armour for the reshoots, the solution was this: They cut out the stomach of the armour, and put green fabric over Gadot’s stomach so that her baby bump could be edited out in post.
“On close-up I looked very much like Wonder Woman,” Gadot said. “On wide shots I looked very funny, like Wonder Woman pregnant with Kermit the Frog.”
To recap: Gal Gadot fought as Wonder Woman while pregnant and Serena Williams won the Grand Slam also while pregnant. The rest of us have basically no excuse at this point.