Gadot adopted a handy survival strategy: take a $200 million production one day at a time. These types of movies are massively complicated affairs, and Gadot found that it’s easiest to take it as it comes. Even so, when you’re diving into milk water, you’re having a bad day at work. Gadot said:
“In these type of huge movies, you can’t take it as a whole. It’s day by day. It’s not even a week-by-week project because every day is full to the max. Do you remember the water work we had to do and the rashes that came out over our faces? Then they had to put milk in it and it just stank. People see the final, polished thing, but we had to do diving and you [Kristen] were cold.”
The fight in “Wonder Woman 1984” was shot indoors, using a massive water take for the performers to splash around in. The milk Gadot refers to was likely used to make the studio’s tank look more like proper seawater, adding natural cloudiness. Milk, of course, spoils and starts to smell. Gadot revealed that both she and Wiig were irritated by the liquids. Wiig added that she was already under the weather when filming began, and getting repeatedly into a cold tank of milk water didn’t help matters. Wiig said:
“I had to make sure I didn’t go down too far because of my sinuses. I had a really bad cold, and it happened to be the day we were shooting under water and scuba diving.”
Let it never be said that actors in giant blockbusters have a cushy job. Sometimes you have to worry about your nose running into a sea of milk.