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Why was Gadot paid $20 million?


What idiot exec agreed to pay the talentless Gadot the same as Johnson and Reynolds? Hell, why did they hire her in the first place?

Besides being miscast in the first Wonder Woman movie, she’s never starred in anything that was a huge success.

In fact, the sequel bombed and the first WW made money in spite of her, not because of her.

She didn’t deserve $20 million. She didn’t deserve $20.

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Don't know. She's not actually an A List actress. She just a hot woman still in her prime who happens to star in movies with A List talent. She can't open a movie on her name alone. They surely paid that money just to avoid the gender equality backlash that always turns up when it's disclosed what these knuckleheads get paid to pretend for a living.

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She’s a flat-chested, scrawny looking woman with generic bland features who is easily lost in a crowd.

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There was a poll done that shown she's the 11th actor (under 40 years of age) with the most pull.

I only watched this flick because Gal was in it. There are others like me. She may not have the pull of The Rock but she has a fanbase.

Citing the failure of WW 1984 is a bad faith argument. It was released peak COVID lockdowns, on Christmas Day and had a day-and-date release on HBO max. It never stood a chance.

The truth is the day of the movie star is waning. Not many stars these days guarantee box office success. Black Adam (2022) flopped even though The Rock is the second most cited "I'd go to the cinema to see a movie if he's in it" actor. The Mummy (2017) flopped even though it had Tom Cruise. Not one person is a guarantee of a smash hit.


Top 20 actors people will go to theaters for:

1. Tom Cruise
2. Dwayne Johnson
3. Tom Hanks
4. Brad Pitt
5. Denzel Washington
6. Julia Roberts
7. Will Smith
8. Leonardo DiCaprio
9. Johnny Depp
10. Kevin Hart
11. Keanu Reeves
12. Sandra Bullock
13. Ryan Reynolds
14. Adam Sandler
15. Harrison Ford
16. George Clooney
17. Robert Downey, Jr.
18. Angelina Jolie
19. Morgan Freeman
20. Chris Hemsworth


Actors under 40 who people will go to theaters for:

1 Chris Hemsworth
2 Jennifer Lawrence
3 Tom Holland
4 Michael B. Jordan
5 Zendaya
6 Scarlett Johansson
7 Jenna Ortega
8 Margot Robbie
9 Henry Cavill
10 Emma Watson
11 Gal Gadot
12 Timothée Chalamet

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Who the hell took that poll? And when?

Also, by pull they’re referring to audiences. Besides the first WW, none of her films have pulled an audience. And again, the WW character drew them in, not her.

I agree about your point on movie stars. Personally, I go based on plot and other factors, not who’s in it.

Though I will skip films if someone I don’t like stars in it. Gadot being one of them.

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She sent it to Israel so they could take out more Palestinians.

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