Gal Gadot at the PSIFF Creative Impact Awards & ’10 Directors to Watch’ at Parker Palm Springs on January 3, 2018. Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins, alone grossed more than $800 million at the box office worldwide, making it the 5th highest-grossing US superhero movie of all time. Gadot has been famous in Israel for the better part of two decades but she catapulted to international fame after portraying Wonder Woman in the solo film of the same name in 2017, as well as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. “Ani afa alechem, Vanity Fair,” she signs off with a kiss.Įarlier this year, Gadot featured in a Vogue video, answering 73 questions for viewers such as what is her morning routine, how often she gets to Israel and what she misses most about her native country, before teaching her interviewer some Hebrew terms such as “sababa” and “yalla.” But she notes that the latter is a rather old slang term and not used anymore.Īs a bonus term, Gadot takes it upon herself to explain “afa alaich/alecha,” literally “flying on you,” which she says she uses often to express love and appreciation. Then there are the food-related terms like “shtuyot be mitz” which Gadot describes as “crap in juice” or “BS,” and “rosh kruv” or “cabbage head” to mean someone who is not very bright. As would “tachles” (loosely translated as “bottom line”), “yalla,” a versatile term in Arabic commonly used in Hebrew to mean any number of things depending on context (it could mean let’s go, or move it, or hurry up, or enough). “Achi,” or “brother” (also bro or dude) would be recognizable to anyone who lives or visits Israel often or is part of an Israeli community abroad. Gadot also revealed a superstitious streak, divulging that she uses the term “bli ayin hara” (“without the evil eye”) quite often, accompanied by “tfu, tfu, tfu,” a sort of low-key spitting without the spit (an act similar to knocking on wood) and “hamsa, hamsa” to ward off said evil eye. The Hebrew term “esh” (also, literally, fire) means the same thing that it does in English: It is used to express excitement about something or someone. Like tackling one cow at a time, it seems.

In her episode, Gadot patiently explains that “ma ani, ez?” is not actually related to any farm animals but means something like “what am I, stupid?” And that another farm animal term, “para para” (cow, cow), means to take things slowly or one step at a time.

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