Gal Gadot – We mean Matt Ketai.
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Gal Gadot is confused. She doesn't know the new actor who plays Superman. In fact, she didn't quite understand that a character could be portrayed by multiple actors in different films. “I am a Wonder Woman!” she declared, confused. “Carl-Al, no!” Except Gadot looks a little different in this viral video, as it's actually a bearded gay guy who laughs at her.
The sketch is the work of Matt Ketai, 36, and Tim Janas, 37. For weeks, the two have posted videos to their Tiktok and Instagram accounts almost daily, in which Ketai’s Gadot worked hard to take guidance from Janas’s performance coach. In the sketch, millions of views add to millions, Ketai overly aggressively Gadot's Singsongy Israeli accent, but also seems to be the first time dealing with human emotions, eyes wide open. For many, the impression is so incredible that they now connect Ketai with the actors immediately. “I don't even see guys anymore,” one commenter wrote in the video. “What I see is gal gadot practicing her lines.”
Ketai's Gadot version is full of Snark, but there is also a hint of truth: the real Gadot have Always learning to act at work. After winning the Miss Israel pageant in 2004 and then two years in the IDF, she was a little stuck in the movie and bounced up stars at an alarming speed. Her first Hollywood job was just four years fast and Furious (2009), she was selected to play Wonder Woman, a role she played in no less than seven movies. Her other movie choices are either forgettable – 2021 Red notificationis anyone? – Or just memorable because of her bad comments.
Online, Gadot is a frequently seen punching bag. Several of her delivery methods have become memes simply because they look so awkward and stinging. Then, for a while, she invited celebrity friends to sing “imagination” in a video that was ostensibly designed to inspire hope when the 19th pandemic was inspired, but actually inspired a viral outbreak. She can also be a lightning rod for controversy thanks to her outspoken support for her motherland. But, for the most part, there is a consensus among many people (and film critics) that she is not a good actor at all. One person wrote in a recent video by Janas and Ketai: “Gal Gadot is a female version of Tommy Viso.”
Brooklyn actor and comedian Ketai explains why Tiktok audiences can’t get what one commenter calls his “pneumonia gaze.”
I couldn't turn on Tiktok last month and didn't see one of your videos.
People say you and Gal Gadot are already merged in their brains by this time. So I wonder, how does a bearded gay man in his 30s do it?
I think we have formed their mind and hope to provide a better version for some people.
Tim and I love to make the game, which is the highest. We tried to laugh at each other all the time. That's how Gal Gadot happens. We try to make each other laugh. I explained to Tim how bad her actors are because Tim is always offline and I'm online for a long time.
I noticed that there were some videos this week in other cases where you were using normal sound, which really put people in the comments.
That's true. Every time I do one of them, everyone just comments on me being Gal Gadot. It was at that moment that I was like, “Oh, this is the bed I made for myself.” Gal cursed us in many ways.
Tell me about your comedy journey and how you and Tim are collaborators.
Well, we are best friends at Speech and Challenge Camp in Fairfax, Virginia. At 16 or 17, we met each other and were friends throughout the process. I'm a trained actor. I was in a performance program that no longer existed, in Brown’s graduate school, but they were very serious. It was Shakespeare’s training and classical performances as well as a dialect coach, which really helped to impress. But when I graduated and started writing sketches with Tim and doing stand-ups, I found comedy more interesting than actors who tried to do drama. Last year, we started doing more sketching work and we will have all kinds of fanatical moments, but there are no such sketches.
For you, what distinguishes a good celebrity impression from something memorable?
A good celebrity impression means you can transfer them to different scenes and keep the core idea of who that celebrity is. The impression they just keep doing one thing is not always as successful as a celebrity, you can go into different scenarios or situations.
To do this, I think you also need to identify certain key behaviors or phrases to unlock who that person is. What is the key thing you want to play a role for GAL?
This sounds stupid, but I have an idea in my head. First, it gets the sound. For this, I usually say, “Kal-El, no!” or “Pie is a luxury!” I think this is someone who figures everything out in front of them like a baby. They are surprised by the new information and are upset by the new information. She never figured out anything inside. Directly in front.
Your gal seems to be unprepared, like she had experienced humanity for the first time – repeat reply to the agent coach or director. But it's also strange because she seems to just want to do a good job. She is doing her best!
That is where gal leaves gal in real life. This is not the gal gadot we know. Now it's Tiktok/Online Gal Gadot.
Let's talk about gal gadot we know. How do you describe the performance style of a real Gal Gadot? What are you telling Tim about her?
Gal always comes out of the water fish. I think that's how we all get considered her okay Wonder Woman. We were like, “Oh, this is a pretty good actor” because she was playing a fish character coming out of the water. Then, as we see The Nile Deathlike, “Oh no. She's a water for an actor. She just shouldn't be there. It's someone who doesn't know what's going on or how to act in this situation – and it's also pretty.
Many lines in her movies have turned into memes thanks to her delivery.
I think we all responded to it because it was a tangible bad performance. Therefore, it is really difficult for an actor to portray bad performances. But for those movies, Gal’s line readings are unique to all of us as audiences, and we can all say collectively, “Not like that.” Just like champagne; I don’t know if anyone has seen any movie, “Well, that’s the way it should be said.”
Now, you also created a meme with this “Kal-El, no!” A small amount.
Again, this is a curse. Everyone was cursed. Now we're just stuck in the meme. We are memes.
Your GAL version is clear, you don't think she is born an actor. She just ended up in the industry and now needs to make it work, right? But this is actually very close to her real career!
Yes, as far as I know. I've seen these two movies. Wonder Woman and The Nile Deathand then I took the Cole Escola approach Oh, Mary! I was like, 'I don't need anything. I don't need to know about other movies. '”So I don't know the plot of them.
I have not seen some of her movies, either, but it does feel like a movie she makes, value in action, aesthetics rather than material. They are a little bland. After completing Cole Escola's research methods, what are your gains in photography?
Actually, I was shocked that there are as many movies as movies! I don't know she's fast and Furious Franchise! I was like, “Who does she play with?!”
Obviously, she is also a person who has caused a lot of hatred online. Of course, there is a mockery from the infamous “imagination” pandemic videos and the like. But she also has a connection with the Israeli and the IDF, and she has a very strong connection with the Israeli and the IDF. I wonder, considering what happened in Gaza, is the mockery she is now getting because she became the embodiment of the Israeli government? Or is it just her?
This is multifaceted. I think this is actually part of many impressions of being successful and talking to people: a strong view of human beings as human beings, both positive and negative. For me, it brought in my impression of her, too. What resonates in my opinion is that, like the “imagination” video, the tone is of a deafness. This also gives people the willingness to respond to impressions.
I also think, especially in the world we live in now – it has nothing to do with Gaza and Palestine – fail The rise is fun. People responded to this. This is also a good example of someone's failure.
Do you think there are other people in Hollywood who failed like her?
I need to look at the list, but of course, a lot of white straight guys have failed some professions.
But I also see the hard work of many people in Hollywood who are not famous, or who work hard to make them famous. They are my friends. They have a lot of talent, and even if they do their best, they can still fail and won't find other jobs.
So, you have a certain degree of indignation here for yourself and your friends that she seems to be able to reach the top right?
Yes, I think that's part of it. Maybe this is even a comment on how it works. But this is the entertainment industry!
You've done it recently video Show Gal's point of view back to Tim. You also say you were flooded with requests. Have you brought us into the Gal Gadot movie universe here?
Everyone on the internet is actually very fun and excellent. So they will make interesting suggestions, we will put some of these methods in other cases, and then we will extend that.
Once I realized we were all stuck in our schedule, I was like, “Okay, what would make this more interesting?” So now knowing that these two guys are making sketch videos and then Gal responds to them.
Let's talk about the Yuanwon where Gal is talking to her Public relations staff and lawyer. It seems you may be trying to preempt something bad has happened. And I want to know what news you might be sending to your video.
We are always afraid of being prosecuted or stopping and stopping. Tim is also a lawyer, so he's like “this won't happen”, but that sparked the idea of watching Gal Gadot videos and talking to her lawyer.
I would say sometimes I'm afraid to make these videos. I'm still in the industry and I'm like, “Oh no! If her agent never wants me to work, or someone who likes her doesn't want me to work?” We have other videos coming, she meets with the agent, and we think the agent should like us very much.
Well, you're really grabbing it. In one of the videos, Tim said that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Is this what you really believe?
I won't say this case. No. I remember Tim's video as a PR guy and said, and then I was like gal, and Matt, and it was like, “I don't think they feel that way.”
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