Right, so this is Gal Gadot.
She did a hell of a job with Wonder Woman and, oh yeah, she had a baby in March 2017. “Wait, but how is that possible,” you ask? “Didnt she just film Wonder Woman, like, 12 minutes ago,” you say. Yes. Yes, she did. Brace yourselves. Gal Gadot was FIVE WHOLE MONTHS PREGNANT while shooting the film.
While the majority of the film’s filming was finished by May 2016, Wonder Woman underwent reshoots in November 2016. In fact, Gal announced the birth of her Wonder Baby on Instagram in the month of November.
This is Gal Gadot. She’s the star of Wonder Woman and a more or less perfect human being. You probably already knew both of those things.
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Gal Gadot’s pregnancy had to be covered up because it would have been a major plot twist if Wonder Woman had given birth in this summer’s blockbuster (although I could see a working mother plot arc working).
Gadot wasn’t pregnant during the main filming, but when she went back to Leavesden Studios for the retakes, she was clearly five months along.
Fortunately, the VFX team saved the day by cutting a triangle in the front of her suit and filling it with green screen fabric. Later, in post-production, they seamlessly flattened her stomach.
“On close-up I looked very much like Wonder Woman,” Gadot told EW in April of the reshoots. “On wide shots I looked very funny, like Wonder Woman pregnant with Kermit the Frog.”
Gadots graft while pregnant was apparently quite staggering.
Patty Jenkins added to EW, “She’s pregnant during part of the movie, and in a suit out in a field in the freezing cold in other scenes.”
We asked her to do a lot of things, including: Step out on one foot. Now shout while you’re doing it. Now that you’ve lost your voice and it’s raining in the bitter cold, go She would run the hilarious gauntlet every day. ”.