Remember March 2020?
We were in the early days of the panny D, we didn't yet have the looming fear of lockdowns, and toilet paper was still on the shelves. What a time to be alive.
It was then that Gal Godot and a well-meaning but misguided group of celebrities decided what we needed to assuage our fears of an inbound pandemic was a cover of John Legend's 'Imagine', delivered with full eye contact to Instagram.
The response was... unimpressed and the track went down as an example of why celebrities need to think before they get on social media.
Now the Wonder Woman star has admitted in an interview with Instyle that perhaps the cover wasn't what the world needed at that time.
Gadot first addressed the song in her acceptance speech at the Elle Women in Hollywood awards, where she started singing the song.
"It just felt right, and I don't take myself too seriously. And with the whole 'Imagine' controversy, it's funny," she told Instyle.
"I was calling Kristen [Wiig] and I was like, "Listen, I want to do this thing." 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. All pure intentions, but sometimes you don't hit the bulls-eye, right? I felt like I wanted to take the air out of it, so that [event] was a delightful opportunity to do that."
Gadot posted the video from isolation, saying she had been feeling a bit 'philosophical' about the pandemic.
The three-minute clip features a handful of celebrities taking turns covering Lennon's famous song, including Natalie Portman, Jimmy Fallon, Zoë Kravitz, Will Ferrell, Amy Adams, James Marsden, Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Silverman, Sia and Maya Rudolph.
Gadot previously mentioned the clip in an interview with Vanity Fair, where she said she had the best of intentions.
"Sometimes, you know, you try and do a good deed and it's just not the right good deed," she said in November, 2020.
"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."
"I started with a few friends, and then I spoke to Kristen [Wiig]," she added.
"Kristen is like the mayor of Hollywood. Everyone loves her, and she brought a bunch of people to the game. But yeah, I started it, and I can only say that I meant to do something good and pure, and it didn't transcend."
Jamie Dornan, who also featured in the video, addressed the controversy just a month later, saying he was invited to take part by Wiig who later apologised to him about the backlash.
"I'll tell you what the problem was. I literally did mine in the toilet of my house. Quite clearly, some people had escaped to their second home," he said.
"There's too much acreage in the background, too many beautiful trees swaying in the background, clearly in front of an ocean, that sort of craic."
I think we can all agree that while that wasn't the only issue with the video, it certainly didn't help.
And at least we got the awkward celebrity song cover bingo square out of the way earlier in the pandemic before 'WAP' came out.
Topics: kirsten wiig, Instagram, Entertainment, Celebrity, Jamie Dornan, Imagine, Gal Gadot
Hannah Blackiston