In a new cover story for VANITY FAIR’s April issue, Gwyneth Paltrow talks to VF contributor, Michelle Ruiz, about her empty nest with her kids in college, what she feels her place is in culture, her current relationship with ex, Chris Martin, and coming out of retirement for A24’s MARTY SUPREME with Timothée Chalamet.
On retiring from Hollywood when she had kids: “I didn’t even contemplate doing anything that would take me away from my kids…”
On filming with Timothée Chalamet for their upcoming A24 film, Marty Supreme: “I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie…There’s a lot—a lot.”
“[H]e’s such a thinking man’s sex symbol…He’s just a very polite, properly raised, I was going to say kid…He’s a man who takes his work really seriously and is a fun partner.”
On having an intimacy coordinator on set: “There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed…I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’”
“We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back.’”
On if she thinks the #MeToo movement “worked”: “I think so.” For one, “there are no meetings set up in hotel rooms, from what I understand, or if there are, it’s multiple people in the room. That bubble has definitely burst…I’m sure people still abuse power in Hollywood because they do everywhere, but it has definitely changed.”
On her emotional response in the aftermath of winning an Oscar at 26: “There’s a healthy level of ambition, like, ‘I know who I am’ and ‘I want the world,’ … And then there’s another aspect that comes from damage…. ‘I want that so that a hole will be filled, so that other people will find me worthy, so that I’ll be lovable.’… I think I was very much dancing between those things.”
On the negative press around the future of Goop after they laid off 18 percent of their staff in 2024: “Maybe I would care if it was true that we’re doing it because business wasn’t good, but I’m very clear…. We are not doing this because the business is faltering. We’re doing this because I need to optimize EBITDA…My business is a good business and it’s a strong business and the brand is strong…Case in point, we’re still here. We just had our best year.”
On what she considers her place in culture: “[I]t might just be that my role is to pave the way…By some instinct or curiosity or desire, I go somewhere and I hack through the path and I get the scratches of hacking through, but I make space for other people, then, to do it. [T]hat’s the point of my life, maybe?”
On her current relationship with ex, Chris Martin: “It’s not quite brother, but we are complete family…He is there for me through anything, and vice versa.”
On continuing to be associated with ex, Brad Pitt: “He’s a very intriguing character…It’s like having dated, I don’t know, Prince William or something. That’s always going to come up.”
[Photo Credit: Ned Rogers / Vanity Fair Magazine]
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