ENCHANTING GAL GADOT IS HERE TONIGHT.

GAL.

>> SO GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> James: IT'S ALWAYS A THRILL, ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO SEE

YOU.

NOW TONIGHT IS THE 8th NIGHT OF HANUKKAH.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF THIS HOLIDAY?

HOW DO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY CELEBRATE HANUKKAH?

>> FIRST-OF-ALL THE FAVORITE PART IS THE FOOD.

EVERYTHING IS-- DONUTS AND LAT COMMITTEES AND EVERYTHING THAT

HAS MANY, MANY CALORIES.

ST ALWAYS A PLEASURE.

AND THEN I CRY WHEN I GO TO THE GYM.

AND WE, YOU KNOW, SINCE WE MOVED HERE TO L.A., SO MUCH MORE

IMPORTANT FOR US TO REALLY MAKE SURE WE DON'T MISS A NIGHT OF

LIGHTING THE CANDLES AND PLAYING WITH DREIDLES AND EVERYTHING.

BECAUSE IN ISRAEL IT IS LIKE IF YOU MISS ONE NIGHT HERE OR

THERE, IT'S FINEMENT BUT NOW WHEN WE'RE HERE, WE'RE LIKE

SUPER MAKING SURE WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT.

>> James: THAT'S GREAT.

NOW I'VE ACTUALLY, DO YOU KNOW THIS, ME AND GAL HAVE ACTUALLY

WORKED OUT NEXT TO EACH OTHER IN THE GYM.

>> IT'S TRUE,.

>> James: I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT IS SO FURCHEE.

I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT GETS A LAUGH.

>> I WAS LIKE WHERE-- I ASKED MY FRIEND, I GOT TO WORK OUT WHERE

JAMES CORDEN IS WORKING OUT.

>> James: IT'S TRUE, IT'S TRUE.

>> HE IS MY INSPIRATION.

AND I WANT TO BE YOU.

>> James: SHE KEPT SAY WAG SORT OF STUFF DO YOU DO.

AND YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE WELL TODAY IS LEG DAY AND WE DID A

LOT OF THAT SORT OF STUFF.

GENUINELY TRUE.

I HAVE ACTUALLY NEVER BEEN MORE EMBARRASSED.

BECAUSE AT ONE POINT SHE WAS STRETCHING ME, YOU KNOW WHEN

THEY STRETCH YOUR LEG LIKE THAT, AND GAL WAS GETTING SOME WATER

AND I WAS GOING AAAHHH.

AND I SWEAR TO GOD MY LEG WAS LIKE THERE.

ASTOUNDED THAT YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT MY HEEL WAS BEHIND MY

HEAD.

NOW GAL YOU POSTED THIS, A REALLY WONDERFUL NAS TAL GIK

PHOTO.

THIS IS A PHOTO FROM YOUR FIRST TRIP TO LOS ANGELES IN

209-- 2009.

SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR LIFE SINCE THEN.

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT IN TIME AND THIS VISIT TO LOS

ANGELES?

>> YOU KNOW WE ARE WERE JUST BABIES, YVONNE AND I CAME TO

L.A. FOR THE FIRST TIME.

I BOOKED THE JOB.

SO WE WERE THERE FOR FAST AND FURIOUS.

AND WE JUST DID LIKE THE TOUR SITES THAT ONE WOULD GO WHEN

THEY COME TO LA.

WE WASN'T TO THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN, ROD WHY DRIVER AND THE

OBSERVATORY TRK THE PLANETARIUM, I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME.

AND THAT'S IT AND I'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT L.A. TO

THIS DAY.

>> James: I MEAN HOW SOON AFTER THIS MOMENT DID YOU FEEL

LIKE YOUR CAREER WAS REALLY STARTING TO TAKE OFF?

>> I THINK FOUR OR FIVE YEARS LATER.

YEAH, PROBABLY FIVE YEARS LATER.

>> James: WAS THERE EVER A MOMENT DOORING THAT TIME.

BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THAT PEOPLE EVER QUITE REALLY UNDERSTAND

QUITE WHAT AN UNBELIEVABLE ACHIEVEMENT IT IS THAT YOU HAVE

MADE IT.

THAT YOU ARE COMING IN AND BREAKING AMERICA, BUT I KNOW IT

IS NEVER AN OVERNIGHT AS IT SEEMS.

WAS THERE EVER A MOMENT WHERE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT NOT PURSUING

ACTING ANY MORE.

>> OH YEAH, FUNNY ENOUGH, SO YVONNE AND I, WE USED TO COME

FROM ISRAEL TO L.A., WE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH LOS ANGELES FOR LIKE

TEN YEARS, RIGHT.

WE WOULD COME FOR TWO, THREE MONTHS, AND GO BACK, AND COME

BACK FOR A JOB, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.

AND AT THE LAST TIME WE WERE HERE LIKE WASN'T THE LAST TIME

BUT BEFORE I LANDED THE ROLE OF WONDER WOMAN, I WAS LIKE, I WAS

TELLING YVONNE, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD EVER COME BACK.

BECAUSE AMMA WAS ALREADY BORN AND I FELT LIKE I WAS DRAGGING

HIM FROM HIS CAREER AND ALMA FROM HER, IT WAS TOO MUCH AND

TOO MUCH OF, YOU KNOW, TOO MANY ALMOSTS AND TOO MUCH NOS, SO

MANIES NO.

AND THEN I DID THE AUDITION OF WONDER WOMAN AND IT CHANGED MY

LIFE.

BUT IT'S FUNNY, THE TIMING.

WHEN ARE YOU JUST ABOUT TO HIT THE WALL AND SAY ENOUGH IS

ENOUGH.

THE UNIVERSITY STEPS IN AND LIKE YOU KNOW, CHANGES EVERYTHING.

>> James: BUT IT REALLY DID STEP IN.

WE HAVE TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON WONDER WOMAN 1984.

IT IS ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR.

FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T QUITE KNOW.

TELL US, I THEY THERE IS STUFF YOU CAN'T TELL US AM WHAT IS

GOING ON IN THIS MOVIE?

>> I CAN'T SHARE MUCH.

I CAN TELL THAT YOU THIS IS BY FAR THE HARDEST MOVIE I'VE EVER

GOT TO WORK ON.

WE WERE SO GRATEFUL AND HONORED BY THE WAY THE FIRST MOVIE WAS,

YOU KNOW, WAS DONE, SO IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO BRING

SOMETHING TO SET THE BAR SUPER HIGH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE BRING

SOMETHING FRESHER AND BIGGER AND MORE SPECTACULAR AND MORE BLAH

BLAH BLAH.

SO IT WAS, IT IS A BIG ONE.

IT IS A BIG BIG MOVIE.

THE SCOPE IS HUGE, THE STORY LINES ARE SUPER, YOU KNOW, WE

HAVE THREE DIFFERENT STORY LINES, SHOT IN SIX DIFFERENT

LOCATIONS.

IT WAS HUGE.

>> I MEAN IT IS SO BRILLIANT.

THE MOVIE TAKES PLACE OBVIOUSLY IN 1984.

WHICH IT WAS INCREDIBLY FUN TIMES.

BUT MUSIC AND FASHION, WERE YOU INTO THE 80S, WAS THERE ANY '80S

MUSIC THAT YOU WERE INTO AT ALL.

>> I THINK THE 80S, IT IS THE BEST MUSIC.

>> I LOVE, SO MANY.

BUT GROWING UP I JUST, I WAS OBSESSING OVER MADONNA.

>> REALLY?

>> YEAH.

>> WHAT KIND OF MADONNA.

WHAT SORT OF.

>> LET'S JUST SAY WHEN I GRADUATED MIDDLE SCHOOL AND YOU

DO THE SHOW, WE DID LIKE A MADONNA DANCE AND I GOT THE SOLO

PART TO DO THE MADONNA PART.

AND I WAS, AND WE MADE CONE.

>> James: OH, THE CONE BRA.

>> AND EVERYTHING.

AND TEACHERS WERE LIKE OH MY GOD, THE PLUNGE, YOU KNOW AND

THEY WERE GOING LIKE WE'RE GOING TO INSPECT THAT, THAT IS HOW

MUCH I LOVE MADONNA.

>> James: HOW IS GAL GADOT'S VOGUE, HOW IS IT.

>> ST HARD WITH THE JACKET.

>> James: IT IS DIFFICULT.

>> STARTING WITH THE WHOLE, YOU KNOW, EXCUSES BUT NEXT TIME I'M

COMING WE'RE GOING TO VOGUE TOGETHER.

>> James: CAN'T WAIT.

GAL, THE FILM IS SO BRILLIANT.

YOU ARE AS EVER ABSOLUTELY CAPTIVATING IN THIS ROLE.

THIS ROLE YOU WERE BORN TO PLAY.