Gal Gadot is an actress who has made a name for herself as a major action star due to her role as Wonder Woman in the DCEU. Not just DCEU, the actress is also a part of other major films like Fast and Furious, Red Notice, and Death on the Nile. With her skills and alluring beauty, she has managed to make a place in the hearts of the fans.
Her recent release, Heart of Stone, is a spy action flick that attempts to explore the world similar to major franchises like James Bond, Mission: Impossible, and Bourne. But seems to have not worked out for her.
Gal Gadot took inspiration from major action franchises for Heart of Stone
Before the release of her movie, Heart of Stone, Gal Gadot talked about the action genre and how it is majorly a male-dominated one even today. She mentioned major franchises like Matt Damon’s Bourne franchise and Mission: Impossible led by Tom Cruise are the ones that dominate the genre. The actress claimed that there is an audience for female-led action franchises and that she took inspiration from these major franchises to create a story that would be led by a female protagonist.
In an interview with Empire, Gadot explained,
“I realized that there was an audience for a female action protagonist. I grew up watching Bond, and Mission, and Bourne. I wanted to create a really strong, female-driven action movie that is for everybody, not a male story that’s been done many times already.”
She further talked about her then-upcoming movie,
“The scene was even crazier, at a higher altitude, and we got into the science of it and dialed it down so that a human could do it. That was something I wanted to really make sure we nailed. That could be done by people. What I can do as an actor, I’ll always go for it and… fight with intention and really perform that. The crazy, crazy stuff, I can’t, they won’t let me!”
Gadot did somewhat oversell the movie, as Heart of Stone failed to impress and earned only a 28% score on Rotten Tomatoes with mixed reviews.
Gal Gadot calls Tom Cruise a Unicorn
This is no news to anyone that Tom Cruise is an actor synonymous with the action genre in Hollywood. Not just Mission: Impossible, the actor has also led major projects like the Top Gun duology, and Edge of Tomorrow, among many other genre-defining movies. So when Gadot claimed that he is the inspiration behind her spy-action movie, the fans understand what she means. Though the movie failed to live up to its inspiration, it did set quite a high benchmark for itself.
Talking about Cruise in an interview with ComicBook, the actress stated,
“Tom Cruise is a unicorn in this genre. I don’t think there’s anybody like Tom. And he’s a big inspiration. And I’ll always try to push my limits.”
Tom Cruise is the person who has taken over the genre since the late ’90s and is still doing it, decades later. Though critics found Rachel Stone wasn’t even close to his Ethan Hunt, the fans can still be the judge themselves.
Heart of Stone is available for streaming on Netflix.
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