Tonight's guest has inspired millions
of young girls with her fantastic portrayal
of Wonder Woman in her new National Geographic series,
Impact with Gal Gadot.
She profiled six superheroes who just happened
to be real people, thrilled to talk with this lovely woman.
Please welcome Gal Gadot, Gal, how are you?
I'm good, thank you so much for having me, Conan.
Are you kidding me, yeah, let's be natural.
When someone says, hey,
would you like to speak with Gal Gadot?
The answer is yes, always yes.
So nice to see you, you look beautiful as always
and congratulations.
I'm told that you have a third child on the way.
Yes, yes.
That is so exciting.
Thank you, it is, another girl.
Oh wow, okay, all right, so that's is that three girls?
Three girls, yep.
Three girls, okay, all right, I have, let's see,
I have two children, it gets confusing.
I have two children with my wife and after the second child
I'm one of six, you know, I've come from a big Irish family.
Wow.
So I thought we were going to have a big family
and I said to my wife after the second child,
so what do you think six?
And she said, never touch me again.
So we stopped.
Till this day.
We stopped at, till this day, yes.
You know, something occurred to me, Gal,
that is interesting, which is that you have set
a very high bar when you think about it,
you're under a lot of pressure.
You have these, you're going to have three girls
in your life and their mother is Wonder Woman.
You've set the bar very high for yourself.
You know what I did?
I set the bar very low for myself.
Low?
Yes, my children, they think I'm a ridiculous person.
So if I finish a sentence, they think I'm a genius.
They clap.
But you, they expect you to be Wonder Woman
I would think.
I don't know, you know, maybe from the outside
but when you leave, in reality, I'm the annoying mom
that doesn't let them have enough screen time
and says no all the time and I'm that type of person.
To them, it's not like, I'm Wonder Woman.
Only where when there's friends around is that I'm still
cool but we'll see how long that's gonna last.
But you know, essentially we're children and parents,
we're nothing more.
It's true, yeah, they, they, if anyone ever says
something complimentary to me on the street,
like, I really like your work.
My children look at me like, what are they talking about?
(both laugh)
And I'll say, okay, maybe it's some work
you didn't see a long time ago.
I want to talk to you about this project
you've been working on, which I have a daughter
who's 17 years old and I see how influenced
she is by meeting and seeing other really impressive women.
How it shows her that she can accomplish anything.
And whenever I get a chance I try to introduce her
to anybody I can, Michelle Obama, you, anyone who,
who my daughter can see so that she knows
she can accomplish pretty much anything
in this life and Impact,
this show that you're doing is really a great idea.
You're highlighting women who are superheroes
because they live in the real world
and they're making themselves excellent examples
for young women out there.
How did this idea come about?
Totally, they walk the walk.
So for a long time, I mean after the success
of Wonder Woman and fame and all of that,
I just felt like super privileged and grateful
that I have such a big access
to people's lives through social media and all of that.
And I wanted to do something meaningful
with that and something good.
So Yaron, my husband and I were looking
for the right project for quite some time.
And when we finally met Ryan Pallotta
who is a young director who did a piece
about this amazing Brazilian ballet dancer from the favelas
in Rio, we completely fell in love with her story.
We fell in love with her, with her determination,
with her leadership and with the fact that, you know,
even though she comes from such a complicated background,
she has the force and the ability and the want to change
and to influence her community.
And then we just decided, okay, so we have an idea.
Let's find different type of stories that are driven
by different women that will show their impact
in their communities and it was such a,
and then it all, you know and then it all became real.
But to me, they're all super inspiring because, you know
it's women that went through tough life, right?
With violence or discrimination or poverty
or trauma or oppression or whatever it might be,
instead of letting it bring them down,
they turned it into a strength.
They let it fuel them into doing something
and try to better their world.
And it's so selflessness and it's so beautiful,
and, you know, whenever I speak to these women,
I'm like you're the true hero.
It's not about me, I know people are, we're going to talk
about it and all, it's you, you're the heroes.
You walk the walk, I read lines
and I'm being hanged on wires and all of that
but you are true, true life heroes.
And I'm very grateful that they let us share their stories.
I think it's also, to me
what's important is that there are a lot of images.
A lot of people that are putting images out
on Instagram that get a following because of how they look.
And, and I think that it's really great to highlight stories
of people that have had an experience,
like an incredible experience or developed an amazing skill.
I think those are great role models
for not just young women, but young men too
but especially women need to see that now
so that it's not all,
who's your favorite Instagram influencer, you know?
Totally, totally that there's something meaningful there.
It's like, you know, it's funny.
'Cause now I do this thing where I ask my daughter,
Alma is nine and Maya is four, so Maya is too small,
but Alma, I would ask her
what do you want to be when you grow up, right?
Or I'll ask the friends and you'll be surprised
by the amount of kids that are going to say famous,
and then I'll go along with it and I'll say,
okay, famous for what?
And then it's like, you know, then it gets confusing.
Right.
But I think that, you know, being a mother
and, you know, coming from the background
that I came from and all of that,
being an immigrant in America and all,
I want to be able to bring meaningful stories to life.
I'm a big believer in storytelling
and I think that good stories has the power to change.
And I hope that people are going to be able to connect
to it once they watch it.
I think they will, we have a clip here and this
is I believe the ballet school, is that right?
Yeah, from Brazil.
From Brazil, let's take a look
at this clip from Impact with Gal Gadot.
I'm fascinated by one thing, which is that you are working
with your husband on this project.
Now my wife and I we've been married 19 years.
We have an excellent relationship.
We never work together, we do separate things.
And so I'm very curious about this.
Does it, if you're working with your spouse,
does that ever get difficult?
Yes, it gets difficult from time to time
but I think we kind of figured it out
once we decided that it's okay to disagree, okay?
Right.
And from that moment on, it's kind of been super smooth
but you know, for us, it's just a different,
there's all different type of relationships.
Yaron and I have a very close and we're very, you know,
we see eye to eye on most things and to be able to work
with the person that you trust the most
and you love the most, and you, you know,
respect so much is the best because he and I care
for the same things and it's kind of great, you know?
People have been telling me it's been so hard
with my partners throughout Covid.
I'm like, you know we've been living this way
for quite some time, we're like always together.
Foo, foo, foo, but it's been, it's been.
What was that, what's foo, foo, foo, what's that?
Foo, foo, foo, it's like, it's like,
you do it against evil eye.
Is it?
Foo, foo, foo, it's like from, I think.
Israeli?
Well it's Jewish or something.
Foo, foo, foo.
Tfoo, tfoo, tfoo, knock on wood, when you knock on wood.
Yeah?
You say foo, foo, foo.
Foo, foo, foo.
You spit, it's like, it's a weird thing.
Oh I spit, I have to spit, okay, well that's.
I'll teach you anything you like.
(both laugh)
Okay, well the last time you offered me something,
I took you up on it.
I flew about.
Almost anything you like.
I flew up, I flew 12,000 miles
and so don't say that to me, Gal.
Don't say whatever you like, because.
Sorry, I need to learn from my mistakes.
Yes, you're going to have to get up
and you know, you're now have to teach me a Hebrew starting
at like nine o'clock in the morning on Sundays, you know?
I'll do it on Mondays.
(Conan laughs)
Oh right, okay, Mondays.
Give me the Sunday for myself.
Hey, I want to ask you something, which is, I heard
you were going to play Hedy Lamarr in an upcoming
Apple series and I've heard that she's like one of the,
she's one of the most fascinating people in Hollywood.
A lot of people, I think young people today don't know
who Hedy Lamarr was and what a fascinating story this is,
but I'm really glad you're playing this part.
Thank you so much, this is a part I'm super excited
to play and we've been working on it
with Apple and it's super exciting.
Hedy Lamarr is basically, you know, a figure that got lost
and forgotten in the pages of history.
She was an immigrant, a Jewish immigrant
from Austria that came to America in the thirties
and she became one of the biggest Hollywood stars.
But at the same time, she wasn't this amazing inventor
who wanted to help, speaking about Impact,
wanted to help America while they were fighting
in World War II, so she and another composer
had invented this secret system of communication,
which is now basically the wifi
and Bluetooth is all based on that.
She never, she got the recognition for the invention
only when she was 80, she had a very, very
interesting life story and I can't wait to tell it.
No, it's really fascinating that if someone,
if someone didn't know, if I didn't know this was real,
I would have said, oh, they've making that up.
One of the biggest, most beautiful Hollywood stars
was also a Tony Stark level inventor.
Totally, in a big way.
And then was never given credit
for it until very, very late in life.
If someone pitched that story, you'd say, oh, come on,
that's ridiculous and it's all real.
It's a true story, I can't, I can't wait to see it.
I know, I know, thank you so much.
Yeah, well listen, I'm very excited for you.
First of all, on your third child.
Congratulations and I want to say something in your own,
in your own language, what would I say?
God be with you, God, what's the best saying?
You can say good luck, that's.
(Gal speaks in a foreign language)
I thought you meant just say good luck.
(both laugh)
And I'm like, Gal, I know how to speak English.
How do I say good luck?
You can say, okay so do you want me to teach you how
to say that's a good luck?
Yeah, good luck, yeah please.
(both speak a foreign language)
Yes.
(Gal speak in a foreign language)
That was, thank you so much.
Oh, I thought you just told me to get lost.
(both laugh)
Never.
Get lost creep. Thank you so much.
Listen, make sure I get the word out,
Impact with Gal Gadot is currently available
on Nat Geo's YouTube channel and I really recommend
this series, especially if you have a young person
in your life, a young woman in your life,
they should see this, it's really important.
And Gal really, you've always been very lovely to me.
You're a really good person.
Thank you for always being so nice.
Thank you so much.
And I've already forgotten what you've taught me.
(Conan laughs)
(Gal speaks in a foreign language)