It’s safe to say Gal Gadot‘s star has fallen. The former IDF soldier has long been open about how much her stint in the Israeli military contributed to her outlook on life, saying it taught her “discipline and respect“. Once upon a time, those comments were largely uncontroversial, but with the IDF currently carrying out a genocide, Gadot’s past is very much under the spotlight.
But, true to her IDF training, Gadot is lashing out in all directions as she tries to avoid responsibility and deflect criticism. For example, she’s been widely mocked for her awful performance as the Evil Queen in the dreadful live-action Snow White remake, which rightly flopped at the box office.
Critic Grace Randolph delivered perhaps the most excoriating verdict: “She can’t act, she can’t sing, she even has trouble just standing there.” Oof.
“She can’t act, she can’t sing, she even has trouble just standing there” pic.twitter.com/ISft1OiY08 https://t.co/oOacyG2fwv
— Steven (@steventphoto) August 16, 2025
More like Gal Ga-don’t cast her in a musical
Now Gadot has given her take, and guess what, none of this was her fault! It was those pesky Palestinians! In an appearance on Israeli TV show The A Talks, she blamed “pressure” on celebrities “to speak out against Israel on the film’s failure, arguing that the box office was “greatly affected” by Israel/Palestine.
C’mon Gal, perhaps it was simply just a bad movie, made worse by your excruciatingly terrible performance? I could go on, but X user @manuclearbomb hit the nail on the head with the cosmically accurate note that this is a “classic IDF maneuver to say the bomb wasn’t her fault”. Double oof.
classic IDF maneuver to say the bomb wasn’t her fault https://t.co/1mzHouAeJu
— Raytheon Greyjoy (@ManuclearBomb) August 16, 2025
Gadot’s position as arguably the most prominent Israeli actor, combined with her ardently pro-Israeli political opinions, has made her a lightning rod for protest. For example, in May 2025 she was shooting new movie The Runner, in which she plays “a successful London-based attorney, who is thrust into a tense and dangerous chase across the city after her son is abducted”.
But while Gadot may be able to deal with son-snatching kidnappers, she’s no match for pro-Palestine protestors who caused enough disruption that shooting was halted as people “waved flags, banged drums and shouted ‘stop bombing Palestine’ through a megaphone.” Gadot was said to be “fuming” after this, perhaps considering shooting on a closed set rather than on location.
But, as for Snow White, maybe just step up and own that you delivered a stinker performance that absolutely harmed the movie!
