Gal Gadot Says She Only Did Miss Israel So She ‘Could Tell My Grandkids’: ‘I Never Meant to Win!’

The former pageant winner admitted on ‘Hot Ones’ that the only part of Miss Israel she enjoyed was “the opening sequence with the dance”

Gal Gadot made her Hot Ones debut where she discussed performing her own stunts and winning beauty pageants all while eating increasingly spicy chicken wings.

During an appearance on the season 21 finale of the popular YouTube series, released on Wednesday, the actress — who stars as superhero Wonder Woman in the titular franchise — joined host Sean Evans to tackle tasty chicken wings slathered in fiery flavors while discussing her box office glories in the Fast & Furious franchise and her upcoming Netflix spy thriller Heart of Stone.

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She told Evans, 37, she prepared to taste the spicy flavors.

“Just so you know, I got some tips from friends,” she said as they began eating the zesty chicken wings. “Try not to let it touch the lips.”

Gadot, 38, told Evans she got advice from Alia Bhatt, her fellow Heart of Stone cast member, and someone who travels “around the world with like a bottle of spicy sauce.”

“She said, ‘Breathe like this,’ ” Gadot said while pursing her lips while blowing out, which Evans then copied. “Just like that!”

The 2004 Miss Israel titleholder also opened up about her time as a pageant queen.

“When I went to Miss Israel in Israel, to begin with, I went for the experience and so I could tell my grandkids that grandma — and then I won and that was shocking,” Gadot told Evans between progressively heated mouthfuls. “I never meant to win, I came for fun, and all of a sudden — it’s funny, you’re 18, you’re not taking things very seriously. The only part that I enjoyed doing was the opening sequence with the dance.”

Before competing in Miss Israel, Gadot had no intention of becoming an actress.

“I never considered myself an actress, and I kind of fell into the role,” she said in a 2017 Sunday Today interview with Willie Geist. “I didn’t grow up dreaming of being an actress, but I started to become more curious about it, and then I fell in love with the profession.”

Gadot acknowledged that rather than face more rejection in Hollywood, she thought about returning to law school to support her family.

Gadot said, “I was as close as it gets,” in response to a question about how close she actually was to giving up.

After a brief career in pageants, Gadot turned her attention to serving in the Israel Defense Forces for two years as a combat fitness instructor during her mandated two-year national military service at the age of twenty. She was able to execute her own cinematic stunts in her action-packed roles—especially in the DC Extended Universe—thanks to her early training.

“I have to admit that when I watched the opening scene of the second Wonder Woman, which features a young Wonder Woman fighting, I started crying. It was like I was an eight-year-old kid seeing an incredible woman accomplish incredible things. When Evans questioned Gadot about which combat scene on the big screen startled her the most, she replied, “That was emotionally effective on me.”

Gadot, who is married to real estate developer Jon Varsano and has three daughters, Alma, 11, Maya, 6, and Daniella, 2, will co-star with Jamie Dornan in the Netflix murder drama Heart of Stone. She portrays intelligence agent Rachel Stone, who is chosen by a dubious company to guard an enigmatic and potentially harmful gadget.

The film was shot before the current Hollywood closure caused by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.’Hot Ones’ Jennifer Lawrence claims she ‘passionately threw up’ after consuming spicy wings.

“It seems like the standard keeps rising with each new film,” she remarked. The whole goal was to make a grounded movie with raw, dynamic action because, at the same time, I didn’t want this to be another Wonder Woman movie. It’s very different when [my character] takes a hit because you experience the same pain as her. Before even beginning to shoot this movie, we had to prepare, train, and work out for months.