It seems that Gwyneth Paltrow’s distinctive child title isn’t that distinctive in spite of everything.
The actress, 52, shocked the world when she named her firstborn baby with ex-husband Chris Martin Apple in 2004 — however her “Shallow Hal” director believes he is aware of the place the moniker got here from.
Brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly mentioned the title Apple throughout Wednesday’s episode of “The Jess Cagle Show,” the place the latter seemingly took credit score for Paltrow’s selection just because he named his daughter that first.
The Farrellys directed the 2001 movie “Shallow Hal” starring Jack Black and Paltrow, three years earlier than the actress gave delivery to her daughter.
On the time, Peter’s daughter Apple was a toddler. She’s now 22 and Paltrow’s Apple is 20.
“You have a daughter who’s a rising actress, and I was shocked to see that her name is Apple — possibly the original Apple,” the podcast co-host Julia Cunningham mentioned. “I was thinking, did that name seep into Gwyneth Paltrow’s brain during Shallow Hal?”
“Apple was a baby when we did Shallow Hal,” Peter responded about his daughter earlier than joking, “Gwyneth has never given us credit for that.”
The Publish has reached out to Paltrow’s rep for remark.
Moreover Apple, Paltrow and Martin are additionally dad and mom to their son, Moses, 18.
The actress married the Coldplay frontman in 2003 and famously coined the catchphrase “conscious uncoupling” when saying their separation in March 2014.
Paltrow and Martin formally divorced in 2015.
Throughout a March 2019 look on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, the actress elaborated on the time period by explaining that she wished a “way to circumvent [pain of divorce] and go directly to the point where we’re friends, and we remember what we loved about each other, and constantly acknowledge that we created these incredible human beings together.”
She added, “We’re a family, that’s it. We can pretend we’re not and hate each other… or, [we can] try to reinvent this for ourselves.”
In 2020, Paltrow addressed her relationship with Martin on the “Today” present, calling him “family” once more.
“Even though we’re not in a romantic relationship, we’re a true family and we like to do things to reinforce that we’re a family for the children and for each other,” she mentioned.
Paltrow and Martin have each moved on since their cut up.
The Oscar winner married Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story” co-creator Brad Falchuk in 2018, and Martin is engaged to actress Dakota Johnson.
