After 22 Months, Gal Gadot Admits Blame for the 'Imagine' Video, and the World Can Finally Move On
Gal Gadot is an international treasure. There is nothing she could do to offend me. If she stole my car, drove it into my living room, set fire to the Stars & Stripes using the flame from a candle on the pentagram she drew on my kitchen floor in lamb's blood in a Satanic ceremony where she summoned Lucifer to curse my house and then had a 3-way on my bed with Eli Manning and David Tyree, I wouldn't ask for an apology. Not from her. This smile means never having to say you're sorry.
Almost. The one exception being the "Imagine" video she is responsible for. That insipid, tone deaf, self congratulatory, audio celebrity circle jerk in the early days of the plague. This bloody mess, with self-possessed Beautiful People turning into needy 17-year-old Tik Tokkers while singing to a population worried about imminent death from a virus to imagine there's no heaven. And what a utopia we'd be living in if we only imagine how great it would be to have "no possessions." Presented here, with the net worth of each:
That one has gotten an explanation:
… but never a sufficient one. Until now.
Source - Red Notice action star Gal Gadot now regrets organizing the tone-deaf, cringeworthy quarantine cover of John Lennon's 1971 song Imagine when the coronavirus shut down the world in March 2020.
'The pandemic was in Europe and Israel before it came here [to the States] in the same way. I was seeing where everything was headed. But [the video] was premature,' the 36-year-old mother-of-three said in the February edition of InStyle, which comes out January 14.
'It wasn't the right timing, and it wasn't the right thing. It was in poor taste. All pure intentions, but sometimes you don't hit the bull's-eye, right?'
OK. Fair enough. While stopping short of a formal apology, this is her admitting she's culpable. I'd say she doesn't deserve full blame. Just because she came up with the bad idea doesn't excuse all the people who accepted her invite off the hook. Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman, James Marsden, Jimmy Fallon - just to name a few - should have declined and let her know in the strongest possible terms it was a terrible concept and would do more harm than good. And I hope Gadot has reevaluated her friendship with all of them the way you would with a friend who let you drive drunk instead of calling you an Uber.
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That said, as Travolta says in "Pulp Fiction," when someone admits they're wrong, you owe it to accept it and move on. Which I am now finally prepared to do in this case. Now I'd appreciate it if Gal could apologize for "WW84." But failing that, just make it up to me with a better "Wonder Woman 3" and we'll call it even.