Amnesia Assemble.
Gwyneth Paltrow was in disbelief studying that she’s performed Pepper Potts in seven Marvel motion pictures throughout a brand new video interview with Vainness Honest the place she watched clips from her most notable roles.
After displaying Paltrow, 52, a scene from 2008’s “Iron Man,” the interviewer requested her, “Did you ever imagine that when you signed on you would end up in seven films?”
“That can’t be right,” Paltrow bluntly stated. “I can’t have been in seven. is that true?”
The Oscar winner additionally talked about how she utterly forgot she appeared in 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”
“One time I didn’t realize I was in ‘Spider-Man.’ I was like doing a scene with Robert and Jon Favreau so I thought it was a cameo,” she defined. “They’re like, ‘It’s another…’ Anyway. And it turned out I was in ‘Spider-Man’ and I didn’t even realize.”
Paltrow confirmed her lack of Marvel data once more when requested if she thinks she’ll be within the latest MCU movie “Captain America: Brave New World.”
“What is that? Oh, no. I don’t think so,” she replied. “I think I would’ve known by now. I may… we’ll see. I don’t know.”
Paltrow stated of Marvel, “They keep it all very top secret, you know. They think they’re the CIA or something over there. That it’s like national secrets. Like who’s doing what and who. That’s why I didn’t know I was in Spider-Man! ‘Cause they never said. There were no signs that said ‘Spider-Man’. The script didn’t say ‘Spider-Man’. It’s all a secret.”
Along with “Iron Man” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” Paltrow appeared in “Iron Man 2” (2010), “The Avengers” (2012), “Iron Man 3” (2013), “Avengers: Infinity War” (2018) and “Avengers: Endgame” (2019).
When proven the clip of her and Robert Downey Jr. in her first MCU film, Paltrow remarked, “It’s not a great wig, guys. Let’s face it.”
Paltrow went on to say, “We had so much fun on this movie. It felt like an independent movie in a way. Jon and Robert and I improvised all day every day. There was a lot of rewriting. We’d go to Jon’s trailer in the morning and the three of us would improv, which is not typical to do that on a big budget action movie. Jon is so brilliant and he really wanted the movie to feel like it had a reality to it and that it was very character-based.”
The Goop founder additionally recalled that the “Iron Man” workforce felt “no pressure” making the movie on the time.
“Nobody thought it would turn into anything,” she defined. “The studio felt they had taken this big risk with Robert as a leading man and it probably won’t even be a hit. And then it came out and it changed the course of that studio.”
Paltrow forgot she was in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” when she appeared on Favreau and chef Roy Choi’s Netflix cooking collection “The Chef Show” in 2019.
“We weren’t in Spider-Man,” Paltrow stated.
“Yes, we were. You were in Spider-Man,” Favreau replied.
She additionally beforehand confessed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” about “Spider Man,” starring Tom Holland, “I never actually saw the movie.”
Throughout a 2017 interview with Elle, Paltrow stated concerning the MCU motion pictures, “To be honest, I haven’t seen very many of them. It’s really stupid and I’m sorry, but I’m a 47-year-old mother.”
Paltrow is commonly in disbelief about all issues Marvel. For instance, she couldn’t comprehend the information that Downey Jr., 59, is returning to Marvel to play the villain Physician Doom within the subsequent two “Avengers” motion pictures.
“I don’t get it, are you a baddie now?” Paltrow wrote within the feedback part of her co-star’s Instagram submit after the 2024 San Diego Comedian-Con panel announcement.
Her confusion was comprehensible, although, contemplating Iron Man was killed in “Avengers: Endgame.”
Paltrow additionally shaded the MCU on “Hot Ones” final yr when she agreed with Twine Jefferson saying in his Oscars acceptance speech that “a 200 million-dollar movie is a risk.”
“I absolutely understand where he’s coming from,” Paltrow stated. “If I look at the industry as a whole, this big push into superhero movies … you can only make so many good ones that feel truly original.”
“And yet they’re still always trying to reach as many people as possible, which sometimes hinders quality or specificity or real point of view,” she added.
