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"Anybody who thinks that someone as successful as Gwyneth has just been floating around in caftans all day is just being rude, " says her friend Kate Hudson, who adds, "I'm way more like that than Gwyneth—I really do throw crystals around. " But Falchuk and Paltrow both insist that skewering these projections wasn't their intention. "The way [my character is] as a mother is most closely based on me, " Paltrow says. "He was also borrowing from other aspects of my life. " One plot point, for example, involves wealthy parents paying for their children to get into the Ivy League (oddly enough, it was written before the college admissions scandal emerged this past March). "I'm familiar with that world, " she explains. The Politician is concerned with ambition—what it means to be driven by it, how it can distort you. Paltrow says that as an actress, she never felt that ambitious, though this was as much for systemic reasons as it was for personal ones. "In the '90s, when I was coming up, it was a very male-dominated field, " she says.
When I was acting all the time, I sometimes pissed off the wrong people and chose the wrong movies. There were some great choices, too, but they were not made with careful consideration or big picture strategy. I have always slightly been wrestling with this punk rock asshole kid inside me who wants to buck tradition and do things her own way. Sometimes that has landed me in hot water, but it's all gotten me to where I am today. And where is that? I (basically) walked away from a career where people kissed my ass to being grilled by a VC or my board. I used to worry about myself and myself alone, and now I am responsible for the livelihoods of 50+ people. These days I spend every waking hour trying to execute on a strategy I created with my team to make goop the number one global lifestyle brand (a girl can dream), while trying to get us to profitability before my series B runs out. All while being as professionally fulfilled and happy as I have ever been in my life. More so. And my overarching lessons?
Paltrow was being asked to play his mother. "I said, 'No, '" she says. "'You know there's no way I can do it. '" In 1999, Paltrow won an Academy Award for her role in Shakespeare in Love, and soon after became one of the biggest movie stars in the world. But she began to pull back from Hollywood once she became a mother in 2004 (she now has two children—a daughter, Apple, and son, Moses—with Coldplay singer Chris Martin, from whom she famously "consciously uncoupled" in 2014). In recent years, she has focused most of her attention on her wellness company, Goop, which began in 2008 as a newsletter she sent from her kitchen and is now a vast enterprise. The company has faced controversy—a piece suggesting women could benefit from placing a jade egg in their vagina, for example, prompted disapproving statements from gynecologists (Goop now tags certain posts "Fascinating and Inexplicable")—but it's been a huge financial success. As of 2018, it was worth $250 million, and Paltrow suggests it's subsequently expanded beyond that.
"That's an old number, " she says. Is it higher or lower? "Of course it's higher, " she says. "Thank goodness. Oh my God. " Bodysuit, G. Label. Necklace, Tiffany & Co. Zoey Grossman Since 2015, other than a brief cameo on a TV show, Paltrow has only appeared onscreen as Pepper Potts, the romantic foil to Robert Downey Jr. 's Iron Man in Marvel's ever-expanding universe. Her difficulty keeping track of which Marvel movies she's in has been a much-repeated joke on the internet, though Paltrow doesn't seem to be aware of this. "I never read stuff, " she says. "But it is confusing because there are so many Marvel movies, and 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. " Regarding The Politician, though, Falchuk and Murphy were persistent—"Like a dog with a bone, " Paltrow says. The production agreed to work around her schedule, and it helped that Falchuk cut some of her lines. "She'd show me a giant chunk of her dialogue and be like, 'I have a board meeting in two days.
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The punk rock kid in me is essential to my decision making, but she needs to be tamed and she definitely needs to think before she speaks. Culture is everything. Hiring is everything. Thick skin is essential. Self-belief is paramount. And very importantly, even though the world thought I had left goop for a minute when my sentiment about wanting the brand to not need me was twisted by the press, business was unaffected. Which means that my original vision is possible. Even though I am solidly in the trenches every day, goop is on its way to being much bigger than I am. A solidly un-Hollywood dream.
Published on September 7, 2016 September 7, 2016 • 12, 777 Likes • 1, 290 Comments The decision I made in 2008 to start what would become the that exists today was perhaps a rogue one, and perhaps not that well thought out. I had a perfectly good day job at the time and though I could not have anticipated what goop would become, I was thoughtful about what it might be one day, and I formatted it accordingly. I had, for many years, been the friend who was called at all hours for instructions on how to cook a date meal, what restaurant was new and noteworthy in NYC, the must-sees for a first trip to Paris that was only 48 hours in duration. It seemed logical to me at the time that having been an aggregator of what I thought was good information, a curator of sorts for my friends and family, that I would open it up to the wider world. The reaction was quite extraordinary. I suddenly and stunningly had tens of thousands of subscribers who were super engaged, and seemingly as many members of the press and public completely dumbfounded as to why I would ever do something like this.
She also divulged that Apple "loves" her name. So take that, haters! 5. On Oral Sex With Chelsea Handler: Truth be told, Paltrow's advice to Chelsea Handler has already made headlines, and she's still sticking to it! Stern applauded Paltrow for telling her famous pal that more oral sex would result in fewer fights in her relationships. Paltrow clarified, "You don't have to always fight. Be a girl. Show him that he's a man, and it's a good thing energetically to do. " Stern interjected that "a lot of guys are insecure" when it comes to dating such well-known, powerful women. "It depends on how many blow jobs you give them, " Paltrow joked.
He also suggested he's a big fan of her husband Falchuck, whom he worked with on 9-1-1: Lone Star. Looking back at Paltrow and Falchuck's big day, Lowe called it the "greatest wedding" and "so beautiful. " "She literally had Steven Spielberg —he was filming the wedding on his video camera, " he said. Gwyneth Paltrow & Brad Falchuk Are Married! On Paltrow's Acting Career: Speaking of Falchuck, Paltrow works with him on the show The Politician. "It's great, " Paltrow said about her 49-year-old husband directing her. "I just love being around him, and he's so smart and he's so soothing and he just, like, gets me so well. " However, she admitted acting is not her "favorite thing to do. " "I don't know what it is, " she said. "I feel embarrassed and I, like, can't remember lines anymore…. I used to be able to read a scene one time in the hair and makeup chair and know it perfectly. And now, I struggle so much. " Paltrow attributed this notion to the idea that she has so much on her mind, like her business.
"I met Sheryl and I was, like, immediately obsessed with her, " Paltrow recalled. "First of all, she was dating Keanu Reeves, who was my celebrity crush. And she was so cool. She knew that I was sneaking cigarettes, and she would come smoke with me behind the trailer. And, she taught me how to give a blow job, and you know, all the classic Sheryl stuff. And I just worshipped her. I thought she was literally the coolest chick of all time. " Berkoff and Reeves later broke up, and she started dating Lowe. Paltrow then met Lowe through Berkoff's relationship with him. She said she even stayed with them at one point. Necessary Realness: Brad Pitt & Gwyneth Paltrow's Oscar Moment On Paltrow's Kids: It's no secret that Paltrow's kids, whom she shares with her ex Chris Martin, have famous parents. However, the Shakespeare in Love star said she still tries to protect her children, Apple Martin, 16, and Moses Martin, 14, from the limelight. "I won't let them be public on any social media or anything like that.