At 18, before she was Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot was just a tall, shy teenager from a small Israeli town who dreamed of becoming a dancer. Her parents, working long hours to keep the family comfortable, still scraped together the money to send her to an elite dance program in Tel Aviv—two buses away from home. Every day, Gal would leave before sunrise, balancing schoolbooks with a bag of dance shoes, practicing until her legs ached. Then, fate took a twist: a friend convinced her to enter a local b