If you ask a leftist on Twitter.com for a list of their top 10 biggest dislikes, there’s a good chance it will contain ‘AI’, ‘Bitcoin’, and ‘Gal Gadot’. As such, the following story is proving somewhat harrowing for people:
A movie no one is clamoring for, using a technology everyone hates, and an actress that is worse than community theater level of acting. Those tickets sell themselves.
— Matt Kibbons (@makibbons) September 1, 2026
Gal Gadot
The Israeli Gal Gadot has faced criticism for supporting her home country’s government despite its ongoing genocide. As Skwawkbox reported for the Canary, Gadot actually won the Genesis Prize in 2026, which has been described as Israel’s Nobel Peace prize. Gadot won this for her ‘wartime support of Israel’. And as Skwawkbox detailed:
Gadot’s comments on Israel and its crimes in Gaza have included:
• denouncing calls for a ceasefire
• declaring that everyone should side with Israel, because terrorism
• whining that her Snow White film flopped because there is too much pressure on actors to condemn Israel (and her co-star – no speech marks – did, tweetingFree Palestine – and not because of her own support for genocidal Israel (and awful acting).Gadot is also using Thatcher-era anti-union laws to prosecute seven UK anti-genocide activists for protesting outside a location where she was filming
Despite the above, Gadot has continued to get work in Hollywood. She has faced some consequences, however, with the following coming to everyone’s attention in recent days:
Gal Gadot didn’t know that Tom Cruise sends a coconut cake to his collaborators every holiday season, despite the fact that they worked together on 2010’s ‘Knight and Day.’ https://t.co/vyT96Yglki
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) August 31, 2026
It’s unclear why Cruise withheld cake from Gadot, but there are signs he may be supportive of the Palestinian cause:
“The train has left the station”
The Variety article highlighted above contains the following quote from Gal Gadot:
This was the longest contract I have ever worked on. It was six months for my lawyers to go through every scenario we could think about as far as the AI component of it. I did not want AI to have anything to do with my performance. We had to protect that… I am afraid of AI, but I am going to be afraid and look away? No. I am afraid but I am playing with it and learning it and trying to educate myself. The train has left the station. You’re going to work with it or be out of the game completely. I am trying to make the best of it and protect what I can protect. The AI component in this movie is for sets and the lighting. We had a broad crew and a lot of people were working on this movie.
People have highlighted many problems with this, with one being that Christopher Nolan’s The Odysseyrecently smashed it at the cinema – a movie which heavily relied on practical effects. As an example, the footage of Odysseus below was achieved without CGI (10 points if you can work out how):
‘THE ODYSSEY’ crossed $1.55B globally.
• Budget was $250M pic.twitter.com/RfvLnoBawu
— The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle) August 30, 2026
Doing things practically – or even digitally – creates jobs for creative people. These people build up a wealth of experience which allows them to push cinema further. If we outsource everything to AI, cinema will be dead as an artform three generations from now, and all that will remain is content.
Other criticisms included this from commenter Velodus:
It’s funny how whenever famous people defend working with AI, they always sound like the Borg. It’s never an enthusiastic endorsement, it’s always like “We cannot defeat it, we must submit to it.”
There was also this about Gal Gadot:
Might be the only person who’s acting would be improved with AI https://t.co/ZaNrzHWGuf
— The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) (@theserfstv) September 1, 2026
Shelf life
Gal Gadot supports a genocidal regime; she’s also a terrible actor. It’s unclear which of these will prove to be the biggest problem for her, but the roles are going to dry up eventually.
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By Willem Moore
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