UPDATE, September 3: The door wasn’t just open. Two days later, Gadot told JoBlo: “If Zack comes back to run DC, I’ll come back.”
Gal Gadot is everywhere right now for “saying goodbye” to Wonder Woman. Josh Horowitz’s own clip of the interview is captioned “Gal Gadot reflects on letting WONDER WOMAN go.”
Listen to the full conversation and something becomes clear: she never says it.
What she says on Happy Sad Confused (watch below) is that nobody at DC Studios ever ended her Wonder Woman.
Horowitz asked her directly whether there was a specific moment when James Gunn or Peter Safran told her, definitively, that they were going a different way.
“No, they told me the opposite,” Gadot said. “They were like, ‘We’re going to develop it with you,’ the third one.”
That matches what she’s said all week: a promise in the room in 2023, then nothing. There was never a phone call ending it. So how did she know it was over?
She read the room.
“I Saw The Way Everybody Else Were Handled”
“But I saw the way everybody else were handled, right?” Gadot continued. “The Henry situation was unfortunate.”
When Horowitz noted the Henry Cavill situation wasn’t handled elegantly, to say the least, Gadot went one further: “Same with Patty was not handled elegantly.”
That’s the outgoing Wonder Woman saying, on the record, that DC Studios mishandled both Henry Cavill and Patty Jenkins.
Cavill announced his Superman return in October 2022, and two months later Gunn announced he was out after all. Jenkins had her Wonder Woman 3, with Gadot, scrapped that same December as the new regime came in.
So Gadot never got an answer. She got a demonstration. She stopped waiting because she watched what happened to everyone else from the Snyder era.
“I feel like, you know, we’re all adults and it’s all good,” she added. “And it’s not even about them. They are there and they’re there to do what they believe in.”
The Name She Brought Up Is The Name Our Source Brought Up
Notice which name Gadot reached for on her own: Henry Cavill.
As we reported on August 21, our source says the incoming regime treats a Gal Gadot Wonder Woman 3 as a scheduling question, one that might move “before Cavill is available for JL or Super.”
Under the current regime, Cavill’s treatment is how she learned her fate.
Per our source, under the next one, Cavill’s calendar is what her return would be scheduled around.
The audience hears the same connection. The top comments under Horowitz’s clip aren’t mourning her exit, they’re going after Gunn for firing Cavill, with SnyderVerse fan accounts among the likes.
“Whatever needs to happen will happen”
Here’s the closest Gal Gadot comes to a goodbye, and notice how it arrives.
Horowitz never asked about Wonder Woman here. He asked what excites her from a career perspective going forward. Wonder Woman is the example she bought up herself, unprompted:
“For me to go and do, for example, another Wonder Woman, I’m not sure I would at this point in my life, with four children and different schools and all of that, to check out on all of them for such a long period of time. It doesn’t work with my life anymore at this point.”
Asked about what’s next, she brought up Wonder Woman on her own. Retired characters don’t come up like that.
That’s also mom describing a calendar problem, not an actress retiring a character. And she immediately un-decides it. She recalled asking Kate Winslet years ago how she balanced kids and filming, and Winslet telling her: “You just do, or you don’t. And that’s fine too.”
“Whatever needs to happen will happen,” Gadot said. “Whatever is not meant to be won’t happen… I go with the flow. I act from my instincts and my intuitions.”
She also expanded on her message to her successor, whoever that turns out to be:
“I’m so grateful that I got the opportunity to wear these boots and to have the character be so celebrated, and be the vessel at that point of time. And I can only wish for whoever it’s going to be to really, you know, come pure to this journey. Because as much as we’re talking about movies and superheroes and blah blah blah, this character really means so much to so many of us. To really use it respectfully and bring all the love and light it can to this world, and then enjoy the ride. It was never mine. I was always just a vessel.”
Even the outgoing Wonder Woman is still saying “whoever it’s going to be” — DC has never named the next one, though per our insiders, she already filmed her scenes.
A goodbye ends with a period. Gadot’s ends with “time will tell,” “at this point,” and a door nobody at DC ever actually closed.
