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Justice Leaguestar Gal Gadot buss cast extremity Kate McKinnon in a resume spoofingWonder Womanon last night ’s installment ofSaturday Night Live . It does n’t come as a large surprise thatSNLfeatured a sketch lampooning Diana , princess of the Amazons , give the cinema ’s worldwide blockbuster achiever following its release in June . Not only was it the summer’stop - gross film , it also overshadow the$800 million mark in spheric ticket sales . And the celebration of the movie ’s success might not be over just yet ; Warner Bros. is defecate a energy for the DC Extended Universe filmthis awards season .
With Gadot being one of the big wizard on the planet at the instant and with the vent ofJustice Leaguea little over a calendar month by , it only made sense thatSNLrecruited her tohost the reach comedy study showfor the first time . And while Gadot took part in a faux TV billet poke sport at the Kardashians , and was featured in another as woman who did n’t realize that she was on a dinner engagement with the just - sprung - from - prison O.J. Simpson ( Keenan Thompson ) , fans all but knew that Gadot in the pretence of Wonder Woman would twist up at some point during the show ; and when she did , showrunner Lorne Michaels and the stamp clearly wanted to make indisputable that the sketch was memorable .
In the vignette , which was alsoreleased online by SNL , Diana and her fellow Amazonian warriors are on the island of Themyscira , but instead of Steve Trevor being pulled ashore during World War I , a pair of modernly - line up lesbians finish up there on a rowboat . Played by McKinnon and fellow cast appendage Aidy Bryant , the char are now flabbergasted by the Modern company they ’ve find themselves in , which leads Bryant ’s character Megan to explicate , after spending a quite a bit of clip on the ocean,“It await like we ’ve determine a whole island of us . “Sensing that the Diana and her fellow Amazons were unaware of what Megan meant , McKinnon ’s character , Dre , says,“Alright , I judge I ’ll just thin out to the chase : Show of hands , who all here is a lez ? "
Since McKinnon – who is easy one of the most high - visibility cast members on the show at the moment – has been assailable about her gender since becoming a cardinal player onSNL , it ’s nifty to see that she ’s not afraid to prod fun at herself effectively with the sketch . Gadot likewise is game , show how she ’s glad to burlesque her now iconic portraying .
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