{"id":511054,"date":"2025-10-19T04:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/511054\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:17:23","slug":"gal-gadot-needs-police-to-thwart-anti-israel-protesters-who-halted-london-production-on-her-latest-film-for-several-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/511054\/","title":{"rendered":"Gal Gadot needs police to thwart anti-Israel protesters who halted London production on her latest film for several weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JO MACFARLANE, HEALTH REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 18:49 EDT, 18 October 2025 | Updated: 21:01 EDT, 18 October 2025 <\/p>\n

Gal Gadot has resumed work on her latest film after a wave of anti-Israel protests delayed production for several weeks.<\/p>\n

Exclusive photographs from the London set of political thriller The Runner reveal the Israeli<\/a> star was back in action amid tightened security on set and increased Metropolitan Police<\/a> presence to deter activists.<\/p>\n

The set, which moved from Camden to east London for a ‘secret day of filming’ to thwart protests, saw the actress filming a dramatic scene in which she was thrown out of the back of a moving ambulance while badly injured.<\/p>\n

Her presence on set comes despite suggestions in June that Ms Gadot could boycott the capital after being left ‘scarred’ by persistent demonstrations by pro-Palestinian activists, which had left those working on the movie increasingly exasperated and set back the production schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several activists were arrested at a filming site in Westminster in June for attempting to disrupt the production, while others shared filming locations on social media.<\/p>\n

Ms Gadot, 40, has been accused by protesters of ‘normalising war criminals’ because of her past support for her country of birth and mandatory service in the Israel Defence Forces.<\/p>\n

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Gal Gadot, pictured at a red carpet event in California in 2021, has resumed work on her latest film after a wave of anti-Israel protests delayed production for several weeks<\/p>\n

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An increased Metropolitan Police presence was seen at the London set of the upcoming political thriller The Runner after Ms Gadot returned to filming action<\/p>\n

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The Israeli film star was pictured running in black sports leggings and a blue zip-up top for the night-time shoot through the city’s streets<\/p>\n

But these pictures show the Wonder Woman star is defying the activists by continuing to work on the film, which also stars Homeland’s Damian Lewis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ms Gadot plays a high-powered lawyer who is forced to race through London to save her abducted son while following cryptic commands from a mysterious caller.<\/p>\n

Dressed in black sports leggings, trainers and a blue zip-up top for the night-time shoot, she was seen sweating and bloodied as she bent over to be sick for one scene.<\/p>\n

But she was all smiles elsewhere on set, chatting and laughing with the production team and dressed in an ankle-length padded coat.<\/p>\n

There was a noticeable police presence around the site, with uniformed officers and a police van parked nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The increased security comes after insiders from the film were said to have become frustrated by what they saw as a lack of action by officers after the production was repeatedly besieged by protests over at least 20 days earlier this year.<\/p>\n

One activist, circulating details of a filming location in Canary Wharf, east London, wrote on social media: ‘No to IDF soldiers in our city. No normalising war criminals!! Free Palestine.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ms Gadot, pictured with her Hollywood Walk of Fame star, has seen her attempts to film repeatedly besieged by protestors who have accused her of ‘normalising war criminals’<\/p>\n

Protesters also held signs which read ‘Trash Gadot not welcome in London’ and ‘Stop starving Gaza<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

Disney assigned bodyguards to the actress earlier this year during the promotional campaign for the live-action remake of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, in which she starred as the Evil Queen, after she received death threats over her support for Israel.<\/p>\n

Ms Gadot has not commented on the latest protests but the Campaign Against Antisemitism has warned they reflect a climate of hostility towards Jewish people in the UK.<\/p>\n

Ms Gadot’s next project is Ruin, a thriller set in the aftermath of the Second World War in Germany, in which she stars as a recently released concentration camp prisoner who makes an unlikely alliance with a German soldier.<\/p>\n

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ‘Protesters have repeatedly disrupted filming at locations across London, which has led to five arrests for various offences including harassment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘While we absolutely acknowledge the right to peaceful protests, we have a duty to intervene when this crosses the line into serious disruption or criminality.<\/p>\n

‘Officers have been deployed where needed to ensure the safety of all those involved in the filming and those legitimately protesting.’<\/p>\n

The Runner will be released in 2026.<\/p>\n

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