Patty Jenkins speech at Gal Gadot's Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony

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https://www.maximotv.com  Film director and producer Patty Jenkins gave a speech at the unveiling ceremony of Gal Gadot's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on Tuesday, March 18, at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard, next to the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA.  This video is available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us. ©MaximoTV  🇺🇸

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00:00In case you don't know, this is Gall's good friend, Patty Jenkins!

00:07Thank you!

00:10Hi!

00:11Thank you!

00:12Thank you, everybody.

00:14Wow, I am so honored to be here and so excited.

00:18I, like, was crying this morning, and so overwhelmed.

00:21Like, what an incredible honor.

00:23I think we all enter, you know, our art form and our industry,

00:28and no matter what, we know the significance of these stars,

00:32and we may not think about them,

00:34but it's people who have left an indelible mark on this art form.

00:38And so, what an honor to be here with you,

00:41who has done that so many times over, Gal.

00:44Thank you, Vin, for the most beautiful speech

00:46and for bringing her into our life,

00:48and I've enjoyed it, you know.

00:50I've got a lot more to say.

00:54So, I think what's remarkable is hearing that story from Vin

01:00about what family she's become to you,

01:02and that's the experience I've had and has everything to do with this.

01:05You may not realize how close Gal and I have become as well,

01:09but we're not only, you know, have we worked together hundreds

01:12and hundreds of days, literally,

01:14but we've also, our friends have become super close family,

01:17you know, family friends.

01:19We've traveled together.

01:20We lived together for a while during the pandemic,

01:22and we've been through all kinds of highs, lows, extreme efforts,

01:26absolute bliss.

01:28And so, here are a couple of my favorite things I get to say about Gal.

01:32My first favorite thing is,

01:34is there are a lot of people honored on these streets,

01:36and they've made profound contributions to the art form,

01:39but as my years as a director have taught me,

01:42there's very few movie stars.

01:45It's a real thing, you know.

01:47A lot of people come around this industry,

01:49and they think like, oh, everybody could do it if they had their chance.

01:52No, they can't.

01:53It's a phenomenon to have somebody who can be your hero,

01:59your lover, your villain, your warrior,

02:02and always draw your eye, no matter where you go,

02:05because, and it's a very strange thing to be friends with a movie star,

02:09because on the one hand, you're my BFF on set who I'm shooting the shit with.

02:13I'm waiting for you to show up so I can complain to you about things, right?

02:18But then time and time again, we're just sitting around hanging out,

02:21and all of us on the Wonder Woman films know each other so well,

02:24that we're like, okay, blah, and Gal steps in front of the camera,

02:27and people gasp.

02:29Me, too.

02:30We're all saying, oh, my God.

02:32Look.

02:34Look at her.

02:35Look at this, and then she starts to perform,

02:37and you say, my God, that's a movie star.

02:40She's a movie star, and it doesn't hurt that we all love her, too,

02:43so everybody on set, but I can't tell you how many times that's happened.

02:46Like, me and the script supervisor and the DP are like, my God.

02:49She's incredible.

02:51The second reason I love you, Gal,

02:53is that during all those hundreds of days that we've shot together,

02:56you've managed to dazzle me with incredible performances,

02:59but does anybody want to know how she's giving those performances?

03:02Would you like to know how?

03:04Where do I even begin?

03:06Quite often, she's in a swimsuit, in outdoors, in the winter,

03:11in the wet and stormy gales of the English winter,

03:14but not a comfortable swimsuit.

03:16It's one made of a rigid armor, squeezing her corset-like tight

03:21as she runs through knee-deep mud in platform wedges

03:26or sand on a sweltering beach or underwater

03:29or suspended in the air, sideways, maybe upright, maybe upside down,

03:33maybe fans blasting in her face as she acts to a green screen

03:37or flying through the air on Cirque du Soleil-worthy wire rigs,

03:41fighting stunt performers,

03:43and I really could go on and on because that's just like literally...

03:46I started pulling up the photos last night and I was dying

03:49because I was like, we've got to make a book of just you

03:51in these strange contraptions.

03:53When people think of actors, all they imagine is the glamour,

03:57but the truth is Gal has had the least glamorous job I can imagine

04:00and yet never stopped from giving powerful performances,

04:04somehow always being the happiest, kindest, most loving,

04:08most heroic person on the set, Gal.

04:10How? I don't know.

04:12As I said, I'm waiting for you for me to complain.

04:15You never complain, you know, and blowing me away every single day,

04:20which brings me to the last wonderful thing I want to say,

04:23and I could go on and on, so I had to really limit myself.

04:26Some have heard me talk about the profound effect Superman had on me.

04:30It reached me at a moment where it really inspired me to believe in myself

04:34and to be the person that I thought I could be

04:36so I know what these movies can do

04:38and I know what inspiring the next generation means.

04:41So Gal took the job with the same attitude as me.

04:45We took it very seriously, but I think the most special thing for me, truly,

04:49was all of the time that we traveled together and went places together

04:52was watching when a kid would reach up and Gal would kneel down

04:56and she would reach out to a fan.

04:58I said, I'm so grateful because she is the real thing, you know?

05:04She's...

05:06She's...

05:18These kids are not being met by an actor.

05:21They're not being met by someone who's just acting like it.

05:24She is Wonder Woman.

05:26She's the most wonderful, kind, gracious person.

05:29What a gift to have someone like that embody a hero

05:32that I care so much about, Wonder Woman.

05:35So there are lots of reasons to receive a star.

05:37There are so many different reasons to be in this industry.

05:40I'm so honored to have gotten to walk through this

05:42with someone who's really here to make the world a better place

05:45and it's a much better place for you in it.

05:47I'm so proud of you.

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