Lebanon and Kuwait won’t be playing Death on the Nile Gal Gadot Movie, Deadline has confirmed, and that’s due to both countries’ protest of Israeli native star Gal Gadot.
Gadot served in the Israeli military for two years prior to becoming a model and actress, as her native country mandates it.
Given her connection to the IDF, Lebanon previously blocked the actress’ movie Wonder Woman from release in May 2017. At the time, the country was reportedly prompted to do so by the group Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel-Lebanon. Wonder Woman was also banned in Qatar. Wonder Woman 1984 was banned in Lebanon as well, however, at the time Kuwait theaters were closed at that point in time during the pandemic.
The Daily Mail, which first had the news about Death on the Nile‘s ban in Kuwait, cited the local Al-Qabas newspaper saying that country caved into a ban of the Kenneth Branagh directed Agatha Christie adaptation due to protests on social media. The newspaper also quoted a country official source saying that they would not book a movie starring a former solider in the Zionist occupying army.
