'I Was Channeling Tom Cruise.' Gal Gadot Told Me About Filming 'The Runner,' And It Sounds Tough
Nov 3, 2026
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It's the most physical role I've ever done in my entire life.
I don't even know how much I ran,
but it's literally running an entire movie
and having to play and act while doing it.
It was very intense.
I was prepping for nine months with an incredible trainer who's an
Olympic trainer and Malachi told me how to run
But again, you come to set, none of us ever shot anything like this.
and how to do it the right way.
You need to figure out how are we going to film it.
We weren't able to lock the entire of London.
So how do you do it while being exposed?
It was a whole thing.
But I think that essentially everything worked out.
Yeah.
Did you feel like, are you like ready to dethrone Tom Cruise
as like the best runner in Hollywood?
No, no.
Tom Cruise.
is Tom Cruise, but whenever I was too tired,
I was like channeling Tom Cruise's energy towards me.
Yeah, as we all do at the gym.
Tom does it, I can try and do it myself.

