Gal Godot is GQ's Wonder Woman of the Year

GQ has named Gal Godot their Wonder Woman of the year for 2017. Here are some highlights from her accompanying interview:

On how her life has changed since becoming Wonder Woman:
"I'm much more aware and alert. I don't want to seclude myself from society. I want to be part of everyone, and I enjoy talking to random people sometimes. It's easier for me here [in Israel], 'cause profiling people is really easy for me. Like, I can tell you that this group—they're good people. They're calm, nice. They're gonna clean after themselves when they leave. They don't look for trouble. This woman, is probably from Russia."

On being deemed an overnight success:
"It's funny,’cause I feel like I'm just in my beginning. After ten years [of acting], now I'm starting."

On being herself:
"I fought my accent for so long. Like, I gotta sound more American. I was a little bit shy about my accent. Until I let it go. My dialect coach told me, 'Just own your accent. As long as you're clear and understood, own it.' And since I've started to own it, I feel free. It's funny, 'cause language is about communication, and if you don't feel comfortable with your accent, you don't feel comfortable to communicate. If you learn that you're different and it's okay and you feel comfortable with it, then slowly other people start to feel comfortable with it.


I like it that it's a vulnerable place, and I expose it because I learn more [from] it. I wouldn't want to be in a place where I say wrong things and people are afraid to correct me… [Sometimes] I feel so stupid. Because in Hebrew, whenever I take interviews, whenever I speak to anyone—I read a lot growing up, and it's important for me to sound eloquent and have good vocabulary, and be really precise with what I intend to say—I have the grammar. But in English, it doesn't matter how many times I'll read—you know, I'll make a list of words that I like to use—it's just not in my DNA yet."

Read the full interview at GQ.