Gal Gadot is so beautiful, she’s almost dorky, raves Margot Robbie
Robbie wanted Gadot’s “Barbie energy” for her adaptation of Mattel products, and that means hiring someone that's almost a dork
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Finding the right Barbie for Greta Gerwig’s hotly-anticipated, long-overdo adaptation of Mattel’s assortment of entertaining products isn’t easy. Barbie, after all, needs to be the most conventionally beautiful person on planet Earth while also living a life in plastic that is fantastic. Who is she going to cast? Herself? No, the twisted mind of Margot Robbie had other plans. Initially, she envisioned—get this—a Gal Gadot-type for Barbie.
In the estimation of Robbie—who produced and helped cast the film—the once and future Wonder Woman has “Barbie energy,” which she defines as being “so impossibly beautiful,” but we “don’t hate her for being that beautiful.” Clearly forgetting the time Gadot invited her most famous and wealthiest friends to sing “Imagine” from their palatial homes to cheer up plebs living in apartments, Robbie concludes that this is because “she’s so genuinely sincere” and “enthusiastically kind.”
“It’s almost dorky,” Robbie tells Vogue. “It’s like right before being a dork.”
Ultimately, Gadot was unavailable for the film, saving her from the indignity of Margot Robbie calling her “almost dorky” on set. Even stranger is the qualifier, because, after the “Imagine” video, the running take on Gadot is that she is, in fact, a huge dork. Not to dredge up the past, but only the world’s biggest dork would think John Lennon’s “Imagine,” sung by Jimmy Fallon and Natalie Portman from their mansions, would cheer people up at the start of the most traumatic, deadly, and horrifying global catastrophe in recent memory. Watching the video, it’s clear, Gadot isn’t “almost dorky.” She’s a dork. And that’s fine. People can be dorks. Robbie doesn’t have to soften the insult because she already went with her next choice: Margot Robbie.
Barbie and her “almost dorky” self open on July 20.
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“It’s almost dorky. It’s like right before being a dork. It stops but a vag hair short of being a dork. It’s knock-knock-knockin’ on dorky’s door. If Whitney Houston were still with us she’d probably sing ‘Didn’t we almost have a dork’. It’s that close.”What are we talking about?
Get in dork, we’re going dorkin’.
Where we’re dorkin’, we don’t need roads!
May the Dorks Be With You.
I dunno, I’ve got a dooorky feeling about this!
If it’s Evan Dorkin then I’m right there with you!
Live, dork, and prosper.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOORK!!!
Dorks?!? Why’d it hafta be Dorks?!?
I told you . . .
*machine guns some Nazis*
. . . DON’T call me dorky!
If someone asks if you’re a dork, you say DURRRRR!
How many dorks we got here?YO!!!Great…I’m surrounded by dorks!
We’re gonna need a bigger dork.
Yippee ki-yay mother-dorkers!
Salsa dork!
Do you see what happens Larry?!? This is what happens when you dork a dork in the dork!
My love for you is like a dork, BERZERKER!
Did he just say “make dork?”
You mean like the back of a Dorkswagon?
Remember when I said I’d dork you last? I lied!
I know now why you dork…
I’m tired of these Monday Friday dorks on my Monday Friday plane!
You call that a dork? That’s not a dork. THIS is a dork.
G’day, dawk!
(c’clink.c’clink.c’clink) Dork’ions……Come out to doooo-ooo-rrrkkkk!!
[reading a page of husbands manuscript]All dork and no play makes Jack a dull dorkAll dork and no play makes Jack a dull dorkAll dork and no play makes Jack a dull dork
HEEEEEERE’s DORKY!
What’s dork got to do with it?*RIP Tina
We don’t need another dork.
“but we “don’t hate her for being that beautiful.” Clearly forgetting the time Gadot invited her most famous and wealthiest friends to sing “Imagine””Yes, famously people hated that because Gal Gadot is beautiful.
It’s not so much that Gal is a dork for doing the Imagine thing, it’s that the internet is full of assholes who will shit upon anything nice for the lulz and clicks.
It’s more that it was tone deaf and self-aggrandizing and lots of rich, famous people at the time were saying the pandemic was the great equalizer but like didn’t have to ride public transportation to an unsafe work environment every day. Way to go to bat for those poor wealthy people
But you see those were two different things: Gal was trying to do something nice and people shit all over her for it and I think it was Ellen who was saying about it equalizing things. Nobody said that in the Imagine video.
I am a communist and will happily put all of them up against the wall when the time comes, but I won’t shit on them for trying to be nice during a hard time, that’s for people even more cynical than I am.
“I am a communist and will happily put all of them up against the wall when the time comes”
I’m assuming you only accidentally became literally Gal’s godmother in the Death on the Nile adaptation.That said, more than anything, it was the weirdest possible commercial for WW1984 they could have come up with.
I am a communist and will happily put all of them up against the wall when the time comes
As a communist, I’d have thought you’d be a little more critical of absurdly wealthy people patronizing the rest of us.
As a communist, wealthy people making music videos to try to make people feel better during a bad time is about the best thing they could possibly do considering ‘killing yourself and giving your money to charity’ isn’t a thing that most of them are going to go for.
You need to stop calling yourself a communist. You’re absolutely full of it.
I am a communist.
I am a communist.
I am a communist.
I am a communist.
I am a communist.
I am a communist.
I am a communist.
I am a communist.
You need to stop telling me what I do and don’t believe.
PS: I am a communist.
You don’t even know what a communist is, and no one needs to know you to understand that… it’s all in your comments.
I am a communist, one who is tired of you insulting him for on reason other than to get their internet outrage hardon stroked.
You’re being flagged for harassment at this point, good job!
Then move on. I’m sure there’s a communist revolution out there somewhere that’s just waiting for you to kick it off.
Well, capitalism is progressing pretty much exactly like Marx said it would, so the revolution will come along in its natural time.
Protip: Anyone telling you they’re starting a communist revolution is doing it wrong.
Agreed. The singing video: lame, dorky, dumbassery. But it wasn’t a mean and shitty thing to do, just stupid. Ellen 100 percent made it out like “this is just soooooo awful, being stuck here in my estate is such a hellscape, we are all in the same boat of lockdown torture” a thing, and then broadcast to people sitting in studio apartments who got fired over zoom and are wondering how they’ll make the rent. That was definition of tone-deaf.
Earnestness that’s dorky is not the same thing.
Berkeley grad, here. Uh, communism doesn’t work. It’s been proven repeatedly. There are few communist nations (Cuba, and…?). China, much to the amazement of Americans if they knew the truth, is a hybrid and no longer a pure communist nation. They’ve fully embraced capitalism as a means of generating national income, global power, and allowing marginally greater freedom to Chinese citizens. Democracy and democratic socialism are far better than communism.
“Berkeley grad, here.”Ooohhhh do you think that’s supposed to impress me?“Uh, communism doesn’t work.”Yep, sounds like something a Berkeley grad would say.“Democracy and democratic socialism are far better than communism.”At the moment, sure.
No, asshole, but speaking with experience from years spent in one of the only places in the country that has any dyed-in-the-wool we-want-communism people (and it’s only a handful, not a movement). You’re just a jealous asshole (yes, 2x) who went to an inferior school, if any, and is poorly educated on top of that and resents those who have done better in life (family, education, community service, creators, etc.) than your sorry ass.
“You’re just a jealous asshole”And you’re just a regular asshole (10x, because that’s bigger than 2…I guess this is a high class Berkeley system of measurement.)“who went to an inferior school”Oh sorry, asshole (yes, 20x, because that’s bigger than 2 or 10).So good job being 200x asshole to my 2x asshole, fucking Goku to my Vagita in asshole terms.PS: I’m not going to assume anything about you other than what you present to me, which is 200x asshole(In high class Berkeley asshole measurements.)
Eh, neither does Libertarianism, but we do so love to dream in this country.
You’re not a communist. Hth.
I am though, hope that helps!
You’re not ever going to put anyone up against the wall and you’d shit your pants in 2 seconds were the part of the world where you live to ever get even somewhat close to it being a possibility. You’re a socdem (at best) larper.
Oh god no I don’t larp I’m not good at making costumes or anything.
But I’m definitely a communist! Thanks for your thoughts!
And if saying shit was remotely close to doing shit all you online commies would have that enlightened utopia right about now. Sadly all you guys seem to be good at is saying shit.
Is this your hobby? Swinging on people you think are “enemies?”The fuck is wrong with you? Go outside. I’m about to. It’s lovely out! Way better than windmilling ineffectual punches toward people you’ll never meet. ;-*NOTE: The preceding statements had nothing to do with politics.
Enemies? What an interesting word. Why did you use that one?
Typically when someone calls a total stranger out online, apropos of very little, and then proceeds to set up a strawman that kind of looks like said stranger before trying to windmill kick it into the sun? Generally doesn’t speak to what we’d call “goodwill.”DOES speak to what we’d call “enmity.” Which is typically a feeling projected toward real or perceived enemies, on a permanent or temporary basis.Then again, it’s *possible* that your exchange was more of a “bona fide vs. bona fide” slapfight, which…isn’t really better?Something like that. Off I go!
“apropos of very little,”Being a political revolutionary is ‘very little’. Oh hoho. Indeed indeed.
Being a “political revolutionary” on the comments section of a c-list blog is ‘very little’. Correct! I’m so very glad we agree!
You didn’t have to do Murry like that but it was very funny.
Dude actually woke up and decided “I shall windmill punches at a random person while they hold me back with just a hand on my forehead.”These “warriors” are fucking weird.
I think Elvis Costello had a line like, “There’s a millionaire who said imagine no possessions..:”
that tune…look, i know it’s supposed to be some type of kumbaya-namaste vibe, but egad. it’s just so condescending.
Neil Young’s cover version of it changed all second-person pronouns to first, and it improved the tone and message.
Yeah, some people will shit on things just because they’re poorly thought out, poorly executed and entirely out of tune.
She’s a bad singer doesn’t make her a bad person.
Not a great actress either but I’m sure she’s a great person in general.
I’d totally meet her for potato salad and dorky conversation.
I don’t like potato salad but I’m sure we could have a nice cocktail together and chat about our political opinions of Bibi…
Ask her how many Palestinian children she shot.
Look up her views on Israel. She is not a great person in general.
except for the whole not having a problem with Palestinian children getting murdered and then using a similar situation to her benefit in Wonder Woman 2.
No but her opinions on the Israeli apartheid state do
Thank you. I’m usually the first to inject unpopular truth.
It was a pretty bad idea, though, to be fair.
Yep, for exactly the reason I stated above.I’ve been here for decades, it’s only gotten worse.
It was a bad idea for other reasons, too.
The big mistake is covering the hit! Cool people cover the b-sides or the some obscure song like “New York City” or something by the Plastic Ono Band. Embarrassing.
Is that the one about concrete jungles where dreams are made of?
Made of what, though? Made of WHAT, Alicia Keys?!
Made of Alicia Keys.
New York City perhaps, or even the other Times Square New Years Eve tradition: New York, New York.
It sucked. Shut up.
That’s probably true. Its not like the people in the Imagine video didn’t have good intentions. They did. But great God almighty, I hate that song.https://www.avclub.com/british-folksinger-frank-turner-on-why-he-hates-john-le-1798233794
Aw, Hatesong! Man, I miss those old features. I loved that one, except a lot of times the band/artists picked a song and said they hated it because “the video was so stupid” or “the video didn’t make sense” or some other nonsense related to the video. That’s no reason to hate a song!! This one doesn’t do that, though. This is a great one. I love how he’s like “This song sucks for *many valid reasons,* but at the end of the day people like it and that’s none of my business.”But this: “But there’s a certain strain of material disdain that can only result from being really fucking rich, which is intensely patronizing.”This is why everyone fucking hated this stunt Gadot and co. pulled.
It was bad because she sang a song when she could have informed the world why it was important to stay in and not further a virus that was literally killing people. It is forever a stain on her career, especially when she didn’t do anything to fix it. If you are blind and don’t see how bad it was, then you are just as bad as her.
Good god, that’s incredibly bitter. Go touch grass.
Someone’s definitely ready for their close up, Mr. DeMille.
Nice. The only thing better than The Internet trying to defend that lame video is The Internet hating it with the hyperbolic rage of a thousand suns. Seriously, though, she was in Batman v Superman, Justice League, and Red Notice. That video would be part of the “highlight” reel.
You need to get some fucking perspective, dude.
The “Imagine thing” was tone deaf AF.
This just sounds like you’re trying to be funny while severely sleep deprived.
There’s just no pleasing some of the poors. Not everyone is so bitter about life that they hate anyone with a bigger house.
It’s reasonable not to want to be told “I’m in the same boat as you” by a millionaire who has to spend a little more time in their beautiful and spacious home while you’re sharing a small apartment with too many people and one will inevitably bring home Covid. Resentment of the rich for being rich is one thing, calling them out on that kind of BS is another.
It’s not reasonable or even tone deaf. She was just trying to do a nice gesture during a hard time, and despite what a bunch of jerks on the internet thought, it was very received and liked by the normal people she was appealing to. Not everything has to made into some kind of class struggle.
I must have missed that part of the song. Can you link me to it on lyricgenius or something?
Elvis Costello has a very pointed lyric:“Was it a millionaire who said ‘Imagine no possessions?”
Yes those people are called chumps, servants, and bootlickers
That’s just a loser mentality. Play the game and you can have a quite comfortable life. Call everyone with more money than you a bootlicker, and you won’t get very far.
Gadot’s not the bootlicker in this example. You are.
Yes and you’re a loser, and I’m richer than you. I’m doing above average, and certainly better than I would be if your glorious socialist revolution ever took hold. I know you’re doing worse than average, because everyone who uses the term “bootlicker” unironically would have something to gain from socialism, because you can’t succeed on your own merits. Work on yourself. Maybe then you won’t be a loser.
“Work on yourself. Maybe then you won’t be a loser.”
YEAH, Arastiethe, you should listen to someone who clearly ignores their own advice.
Lets all listen to the hillbilly, kids. Trickle down economics and other things involving impregnating our sisters.
Lol!
Get back on the fry line.
This feels like a backhanded compliment, a way for Robbie to convey that Gadot is a terrible actor, without really saying it.
Are you a fucking idiot?
Girls are mean.
Hmm, this gives me an idea about a teen comedy or a musical based on that teen comedy!
I asked one out once and she laughed at me!
You don’t have to ask them out for them to laugh at you.
I always thought her face looked mean.
long-overdoJesus fucking christ
The adaptation is simply overdone, right?
Don’t overdue the criticism.AI is still in its infancy, after all.
Imagine not talking about the Imagine video. It’s easy if you try.
Did Jezebel accidentally cross-post to A.V. Club?
Yeah, don’t talk about girl shit over here! We only want articles about he-man stuff, like farting and baseball and anal sex!
If you fart a baseball after anal sex, consult a physician.
And if you fart baseball during anal sex, probably advise your partner in advance.
Why?! To tell him how awesome it was?
Leave me and Dr Lizardo out of this.
“Puff pieces devoid of content gushing over celebrities.”- Jezebel.
*plebe
Genuine question – does anyone sub this shit?
She is incredibly beautiful, but she’s a terrible actor.
Lucky they had a better actor who looks like Barbie.
Not to dredge up the past, but only the world’s biggest dork would think John Lennon’s “Imagine,” sung by Jimmy Fallon and Natalie Portman from their mansions, would cheer people up at the start of the most traumatic, deadly, and horrifying global catastrophe in recent memory.Nah, that tracks, given that “Imagine”, which includes the lyrics “Imagine a world without possessions” was composed on a piano that cost more money than most Americans made in several years at the time
I don’t believe for a second that Margot Robbie wasn’t the first choice to play Barbie for the Barbie movie that Margot Robbie was producing.
She could produce and help cast and still not think she, Robbie, was in fact the best choice. That said she certainly is more Barbie looking than Gadot, who I can’t even imagine with blonde hair. Then again IMO they are both flawlessly beautiful, and I adore Robbie because she is also a metal head lol.
I don’t think Robbie is asked to be involved in the project without whoever brought her on assuming she’d eventually take the role.
Agreed, and is she the ideal choice, sure hard to pick a better IRL Barbie, and I 100% can not see Gal Gadot going blonde. I can kind of get the point about her being beautiful, but not being hated for it, which I would assume comes from other women. And honestly if I had to pick which of those 2is a bigger dork it would 100% be Robbie. She comes across as kind of bubbly and goofy but that could also just be her public persona and she’s 100% different when she’s not “on” Also 100% bet that trailer goes wild on all the foot fetish sites LOL
“I don’t think Robbie is asked to be involved in the project without whoever brought her on assuming she’d eventually take the role.”She is the producer of the movie, dickhead. As in, her production company is making the movie. As in, SHE brought on EVERYONE ELSE.SHE brought on Gerwig. SHE brought on Baumbach. SHE brought on Gosling.It’s her movie, asshole.
I thought the same thing. We’re supposed to believe that Margot Robbie, Selfless Producer and Casting Director, begrudgingly cast herself as the lead in a big-budget movie only as a last resort?
If she wants to be nice she can pay highers taxes. Look, I
get it, we live in a time where being earnest is being crapped on and in some respects it shouldn’t be but
it’s hard to take from the ultra wealthy. I think it’s time people learn the difference between kindness and niceness. What she did was nice and in an more equitable society we probably would thought it dorky and cute but it just isn’t in our current context.
Yes. I was that dorky in high school.
Calling the pandemic the most traumatic global catastrophe sure is some white people shit.
Can you think of another recent catastrophe that truly was global and not regional? I can’t.
Why does it have to be recent?
Because the article specified “recent”.
No, you did. Lol….
“Not to dredge up the past, but only the world’s biggest dork would think John Lennon’s “Imagine,” sung by Jimmy Fallon and Natalie Portman from their mansions, would cheer people up at the start of the most traumatic, deadly, and horrifying global catastrophe in recent memory.”
I had to hear SO MANY TIMES how I shouldn’t get in line as early for the vaccine as possible because COVID disproportionately affected POCs. (and what doesn’t?) Take that white people problem shit, and shove it SO FAR up your ass that you disproportionately get fucked.
Yeah watching my father and uncle die horribly while other parts of the family’s careers were derailed and destroyed was so white people shit. As my shattered mother sinks deeper into depression, I like to remind her that even though she’s a dark-skinned Cuban, it’s just white people shit.
Goddamn this is an incredibly dumb tweet. Congratulations.
7M dead globally. 530K in India alone. This number is not disaggregated by Aryan vs. Dravidian so maybe you’re right after all.
Um, China? Australia? Hello!
Is this Barbie movie really “hotly anticipated?” Who is planning on seeing it? I’m not ever planning on streaming it for free when it’s available.
Be careful, pointing out this movie doesn’t look that great will get you yelled at for “not getting it”.
As I watched the first WW movie, I kept saying to myself, “She is so pretty. She is so pretty”
I’ll keep disliking Gadot for her defense of Israeli state terrorism, which feels like a better reason to dislike her than anything else.
Margot Robbie: “she’s so enthusiastically kind, that it’s almost dorky. It’s like right before being a dork.”The AVClub: Gal Gadot is so beautiful, she’s almost dorky, raves Margot RobbieWhy? Why must you make up lies instead of just wrist reporting what was actually said?
Gal Gadot is a war criminal who was an IDF trainer brainwashing young Israelis to hate and murder arabs in the name of religious nationalism. The only reason she gets any attention at all is the race/ethnicity card. Another solider who said yes sir instead of no and forever not the hero we needed.
Oh thank Christ there’s few people in Hollywood these days who can act less than Gadot.
She’s the Orlando Bloom of the 2010s: she can look pretty and has all the screen presence of a dry sponge.