Gal Gadot Has Finally Admitted That Her ‘Imagine’ Cover Sucked
The actress says the decision to film a rich person sing-along was in "poor taste."
It was March 2020, and Gal Gadot had decided to do something about the then-rapidly spreading horror of the coronavirus pandemic.
Did she donate money? No — at least not publicly. Did she admit that her wealth and prestige had cocooned her away from the devastation being wrought upon disenfranchised communities? No. She sang a song.
Yep, it was the ‘Imagine’ cover heard around the world, an astonishingly tone-deaf sing-along in which celebrities, locked away in their massive houses, tried to pretend that their experience of the pandemic in any way resembled what the rest of us were going through. Stumbling around their mansions, staring down the barrel of the camera, the elite did their best to pucker their lips and empathise.
Only, the video copped immediate flak. The rest of us saw the empty gesture for what it was — more pandering from a cultural glitterati who were never going to really suffer during the pandemic.
Gal Gadot has addressed that backlash before. “Sometimes, you know, you try and do a good deed and it’s just not the right good deed,” the actress said in October of that year. “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.”
Now, Gadot has spoken out about the controversy yet again, explaining her intentions while admitting it was in “poor taste.”
“I was calling Kristen [Wiig] and I was like, ‘Listen, I want to do this thing’,” Gadot said in an interview. “The pandemic was in Europe and Israel before it came here [to the U.S.] in the same way. I was seeing where everything was headed.”
“But [the video] was premature. It wasn’t the right timing, and it wasn’t the right thing. It was in poor taste.
“Sometimes you don’t hit the bulls-eye,” the actress said, with something like weary resignation.
Anyway, if you want to remind yourself of the horrors of that video, you can do so by watching it right here: