At the start of the pandemic, Gal Gadot headed up a star-studded musical number of John Lennon’s song “Imagine.”
“We are in this together, we will get through it together. Let’s imagine together. Sing with us ❤ All love to you, from me and my dear friends. #WeAreOne,” she captioned the video, which also features Kristen Wiig, Jimmy Fallon, Natalie Portman, Will Ferrell, Sia, Norah Jones, Chris O’Dowd and more.
However, what was meant to be a show of unity didn’t go over so well with a lot of people – many panned it for being out of touch in light of the anxiety and uncertainty going on at the time, while others called out celebrities for singing lines like “imagine no possessions” when they are privileged.
In a recent interview, Gal finally addressed the criticism that stemmed from her mini project.
“Sometimes, you know, you try and do a good deed and it’s just not the right good deed,” Gal said in the November issue of Vanity Fair. “I had nothing but good intentions and it came from the best place, and I just wanted to send light and love to the world.”
Gal actually had some help putting the whole video together – but the Wonder Woman star owned up to coming up with the whole thing.
“I started with a few friends, and then I spoke to Kristen [Wiig],” she says. “Kristen is like the mayor of Hollywood. Everyone loves her, and she brought a bunch of people to the game. But yeah, I started it, and I can only say that I meant to do something good and pure, and it didn’t transcend.”
After the video was released, Jamie Dornan, who was among the celebrities that participated in the video, speculated on why the video got a lot of criticism.
“I’ll tell you what the problem was. I literally did mine in the toilet of my house… Quite clearly, some people had escaped to their second home,” Jamie said on the Tea With Me podcast back in April. “There’s too much acreage in the background, too many beautiful trees swaying in the background, clearly in front of an ocean, that sort of craic. I was quite aware of that whenever I was doing it, to make it normal.”
Jamie also defended Gal by saying, “Listen. Break it all down, that’s a very well-known, successful, beautiful person, who, I’ve never met, but everyone I know says she’s lovely and she’s all about being good and kind. She was trying to do a good and kind thing and just got nailed for it. I just got dragged along with it, but listen, what are we going to do.”
