Recently, the world stopped in appreciation of an unexpected message of Gal Gadot directed towards fellow actress and newly-inducted superheroine, Brie Larson, whose entry as Marvel Studios’ extraordinary first ever female lead, Captain Marvel took the movie scene by storm.
Gadot, most famous for her role as the titular character in DC’s multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbuster hit, Wonder Woman, took to Instagram to drop a message of support to the successful weekend release of the Oscar winner’s film. She wrote, “I’m so happy for you sister! Congrats!”
people: *pit Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel against each other*
Gal: pic.twitter.com/jBeYkVkzUJ
— hope ✨ (@hopefeir) March 11, 2019
Following its weekend release, the 21st movie to earn praise and box office success from the MCU, now has collected $456M, Forbes reports, and made Larson a worthy followup to Gadot’s global triumph after DC’s own female superhero, reportedly raked in record-breaking ticket sales that officially made it the highest-grossing superhero origin film of all time.
Gadot used the heartwarming empowering artwork of a 17-year-old artist under the moniker Mazy Artwork on Instagram, picturing the two iconic characters appearing friendly and supportive of one another. The artist, in her post of her art, wrote, “[W]e don’t put women against each other in this house. #wonderwoman#captainmarvel”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BebO-UWAHGU/?utm_source=ig_embed
This, of course, is in response, to the toxic culture of pitting the two characters from rival cinematic universes against one another. With Gadot’s support to Larson, this advocates abolishing the social construct of women competing against women.
Larson has yet to respond to the message of support she received from Wonder Woman herself but this sure is a significant march forward to empowerment that, in case you missed, actually are the whole point of the release of these two movies.
Larson is expected to return on April as Carol Danvers in the much-anticipated Avengers: Endgame release while Gadot’s return as Diana Prince, the amazon warrior princess in Wonder Woman 1984 is now under production.