Gal Gadot received a particularly wonderful honour at Thursday’s Critics’ Choice Awards: Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins presented her with the #SeeHer Award, honouring the actress for challenging female stereotypes on screen and off.
Gadot accepted the award by noting that throughout her career she has wanted to play strong, independent, real women, and found all those qualities in her role as Wonder Woman. “She’s full of heart, strength, compassion, and forgiveness. She sees wrong that must be made right. She takes action when everyone around her is idle. She commands the attention of the world, and in doing so, she sets a positive example for humanity,” she said.
The actress also noted that there were “very few female-led movies and even fewer female directors,” but that things are changing — in 2017, three of the top-grossing films were female-led, including her Jenkins-directed superhero film. “There were eight other films in [the] top 100 which were directed by females,” she added. “So although this is progress, but there’s still a long way to go.
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