Gal Gadot tries her very first Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup

It took a starring Hollywood superhero flick that catapulted her to iconic stardom, but Israeli model-turned-actress Gal Gadot has finally, at 32, tasted an iconic American treat, the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.

In a Thursday interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the comedian and host Fallon traded what little gossip he could garner on the next DC comics universe film slated to feature Gadot as Wonder Woman, chatted about Gadot’s daughter Alma, who is reportedly decidedly unimpressed that her mother is Wonder Woman, and in the age-old tradition of cultural exchange, tasted an Israeli chocolate bar suggested by Gadot before offering her a sampling of the Reese’s cup.

Gadot crowed proudly about her six-year-old Alma during the six-minute interview.

“Whenever people talk to me about Wonder Woman, she [Alma] completely takes [over] the conversation.” She “will go on and on and on” explaining that, “‘Honestly, every woman is a Wonder Woman. My mom is just the biggest one because she does the movie…. My mom is Wonder Woman, ah, whatever,'” Gadot quotes Alma saying dismissively.

Gadot then turned to an Israeli perspective on American holidays, including the upcoming Halloween, during which her Alma is planning to go trick-or-treating as a zombie.

“I must tell you, it’s weird. You guys in America have wonderful holidays, but it’s kind of crazy, right? Because it’s all about consuming and consuming. So Christmas, everyone buys presents. Halloween, everyone buys tons of candy. And then it’s okay for you to tell your children to go knock on strangers’ doors so they can go give them candies.”

The audience laughed, and Gadot assured that her daughter thinks Halloween is the “best holiday ever.”

She then introduced Fallon to the ubiquitous Israeli chocolate bar called “Shokolad Para,” or “cow chocolate,” a general Israeli term for milk chocolate but also the specific name of the Elite brand of red-wrapped chocolate bars.

Fallon pulled from behind his desk the variety of Shokolad Para that has pop candies embedded in the chocolate, which pop and explode in the mouth as the chocolate melts. He even leaned forward into his microphone to allow his audience to hear the popping sounds.

Fallon, in turn, introduced Gadot to a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, a generations-old American treat the Israeli star had never tasted.

“Today is a great day for you,” Fallon declares, pulling the Reese’s two-cup package from behind his desk.

Gadot opened the wrapping, saying, “I love peanut butter, but I never tried it with chocolate.” After taking a bite, she slowly smiled and gave a thumbs up to the cheering audience.

“It’s really good. I can’t believe I never tried it,” she assured.

Gadot’s Fallon interview came two days before she opened the second episode of Saturday Night Live’s 43rd season Saturday with a Hebrew monologue cheekily mocking the “nice but not very sophisticated” writers who she said tried to have her eat hummus in every sketch.

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After poking fun at her accent — “obviously I’m not from here, I’m from Alberquerque,” she joked — Gadot said she was particularly excited to make her debut as guest host of the long-running late-night program as it also marked the first time that the show would be broadcast live in Israel. “Hi Imma, Hi Abba,” she said, waving.

“I actually have a quick message for the rest of my friends and family back home,” the “Wonder Woman” star said before launching into her native Hebrew, accompanied by subtitles for the US audience.

“Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that this might be a big mistake. The writers here clearly know nothing about Israel. In every sketch they have me eating hummus. I mean, I like hummus, but come on. They’re nice, but they’re not very sophisticated,” she said in Hebrew. “I think they believe that I’m the actual Wonder Woman. So in short, wish me luck.”

Her monologue followed a cold open of the show with country singer Jason Aldean performing Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.” The cover was a tribute to both rock legend Petty, who died this week aged 66, and the mass shooting in Las Vegas, where at least 59 people were gunned down at a music festival while Aldean was on stage.

With the writers apparently having given up on the hummus-themed sketches, other segments of the show saw Gadot impersonating reality TV star Kendall Jenner with a take on her new show “Kendall’s World!” as she got lost in her own home, and struggling through a blind date with OJ Simpson.

In a sketch spoofing Wonder Woman, Gadot locked lips with SNL regular Kate McKinnon when the later, playing a lesbian, arrived in Themyscira, the mythical island only inhabited by beautiful women where the superheroine hails from.

Gadot gamely offers to kiss McKinnon “and see if I feel something.” After a lengthy, passionate smooch, Wonder Woman declares that, “I’m sorry I feel nothing.”

The choice of Gadot to host an SNL episode came after Wonder Woman, in which the Israeli actress played the lead role, was a box office smash this summer, grossing over $820 million worldwide.

In light of the movie’s success, Gadot has signed on to star in a sequel. She also plays the character of Wonder Woman in “Justice League,” which is slated to hit theaters in November.