“I use every bone in my body not to be googly-eyed over her and not kiss her and jump her bones all the time.”
As Gwyneth Paltrow returns to the big screen opposite Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme this Christmas, her family is also gearing up to support her.
Given the fact that Paltrow’s character has an affair with Chalamet’s character, there have been some mixed reactions to her taking the role from the people in her life.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Paltrow got real about what it’s been like for her to get back into the acting world.
At first, the prospect of returning to acting was nerve-wracking for Paltrow.
But, the fact that her children and stepchildren have all gone off to college on the East Coast was a huge motivator for her to do the film.
“I found out [the filming] was in New York City, and I thought this could be a really interesting thing to do during this transition,” she explained in the interview. “I want to be close to the boys, I’ll be closer to the girls [on the East Coast]. So I said yes, and then I was like, ‘Oh f***, do I remember how to do this?’ It had been seven years.”
Once Paltrow was on set, though, she began to feel the excitement again.
In particular, Paltrow expressed excitement to be part of a recent movement towards showing older women having sexual desires and sexual agency on screen.
“It will never cease to amaze me how people underestimate women as the consumer,” she said. “We drive markets — we create markets, so of course a 40-something woman is going to be excited about a sex scene with Timothée Chalamet. And of course women are going to be excited about this idea that there’s agency around sexuality and that older women are sexual. So I think it’s great, I’m all for it.”
And her adult children’s response to her latest role?
“I mean, my daughter’s so cool and so punk rock that she’s like, ‘Mom, this is awesome!’” Paltrow shared. “And my son was like, ‘Oh my God, I don’t want to see this.’ He was kind of mortified.”
“But I do think they’re actually excited to see this film because now they’re grown up and they can make this separation,” she clarified. “I’m sure they’ll gag when I’m having a make-out scene, of course. But it’s funny, they haven’t really seen me in movies. Historically, they like me home, as Mom, and they don’t like to engage with the outside perspective of who I am.”
