Actress Gal Gadot has said a viral video made by her and some fellow Hollywood stars at the start of the pandemic was "in bad taste".

The video saw the 36-year-old accompanying fellow actors, who sang a line from John Lennon's 1971 single Imagine.

Jamie Dornan, Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell took part in the stunt, which was widely ridiculed on social media.

Gadot told InStyle that he had "all pure intentions, but sometimes you don't hit the bullseye".

The Wonder Woman star said that, in retrospect, the video was "premature".

"I was calling Kristen [Wig] and I was like, 'Listen, I want to do this job,'" Gadot explained. "The pandemic was the same way [in the US] before it came to Europe and Israel.

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"I could see where everything was going. But [the video] was premature. It wasn't the right time, and it wasn't the right thing. It was in bad taste."


"All pure intent, but sometimes you don't hit the bullseye, right? I felt like I wanted to wind down with it, so it was a happy opportunity to do so."

Other stars who took part in the video included Amy Adams, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Chris O'Dowd, singer Sia and model Cara Delevingne.

It has garnered over 10 million views on Instagram since it was published in March 2020.

Each celebrity was seen singing a line from the Lennon hit, and then the clip was stitched together.

However, when the video was released, it was criticized by fans as deaf, cringe-worthy and out of touch.

Podcast host Joe Rogan called the celebrities attending to record the video "stupid" while "everybody's grandma is dying."

But Belfast star Dornan defended Gadot against critics, saying she was "trying to do a good job".