Don’t expectGwyneth Paltrowto make her return as leading lady anytime soon.
The 47-year-old actress and Goop CEO, who won an Oscar in 1999 forShakespeare in Love, has no desire to go back to full-time acting.
“Literally never—nev-er,” shetoldHarper’s Bazaarof ever getting the acting bug again. “When I was acting I really burned myself out. When the flywheel kicked in, I was doing three to five movies a year. I really got to the point where even the little things, like sitting in the van going to set, getting your makeup touch-ups, and everything—I really don’t know that I can bear it.”
“The last movie I starred in, I was pregnant with my daughter,” she recalled. “It was a movie calledProof,an adaptation of a play I did in London, and I was like, ‘I’ve had it. I can’t do this anymore.’ I had morning sickness and I was dying, and I had these five-page monologues. So when I had her, I knew I was going to take a big chunk of time off. And I’ve never starred in anything again.”
Gwyneth Paltrow.Zoey Grossman
Zoey Grossman
Though she’s appeared in a few projects since, including theIron Manfranchise and someAvengersmovies, Paltrow stayed true to her word and has only played supporting roles. The last time she acted in a movie outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe was 2015’sMortdecai, where she played Johnny Depp’s wife.
In September, Paltrow sat down with Harry Kargman, Founder and CEO of Kargo, for a panel at Advertising Week New York, where she discussed her unlikely career move back to television.
She admitted there was a big reason for wanting to switch up her career, however.
“I wouldn’t say I’m that passionate about it anymore…I have had a lot of good luck and a lot of hard work, which led to a really good film career…at a certain point I felt like it wasn’t what I wanted to do …so I did a little pivot,” she shared of creating her beauty brand, Goop.
source: people.com
