Gwyneth Paltrow: Military Chic in NYC

 

 

 

 

 

 

awesome shoes

love the military jacket!

Don't shoot me when I say this.

 

I have become very fond of Gwyneth over the past few months. From her fantastic Glee appearance (which proved she has pipes) to Country Strong (with songs penned by her more talented husband) to just watching stuff she's in (she deserved that Oscar for Shakespeare in Love) I just have found some respect for her. She's a lucky woman, being married to Chris Martin. But Chris is lucky too. He married a talented, zany, wonderful woman.

:) *pulls finger off trigger*

 

You are in the right thread then !

Im no Gwynaholic- but respect and admire (being a new mum myself) just what this lady accomplishes in a 24 hour day.

And I think she must be ace for her to keep the affections of Mr Martin.

 

I loved her in Glee, and I had never watched the show, cant wait to see her reprise the Holly role !

Zorianna Kit: Gwyneth Paltrow on Country Music, Being a Working Mom and the Death of Her Beloved Father

Gwyneth Paltrow takes on country music in the Screen Gems' feature Country Strong where she plays washed-up country star Kelly Canter, who leaves rehab early to embark on a comeback tour. In an exclusive interview, Paltrow shares her thoughts on everything from her newfound love for country music, how she consciously scaled back on work so she could raise her children, and how her father's death continues to affect her to this day.

 

Zorianna Kit: Country Strong is your first big lead role since you had your second child. Was it a conscious decision to not work much?

 

Paltrow: Yeah. I mean, I had done so much work in my 20's and I was pretty burned out and pretty over it.

 

Kit: Then you got married and had a family. (Paltrow is married to Coldplay singer Chris Martin. The couple have two children, Apple, 6, and Moses, 4.)

 

Paltrow: I just wanted to be with them and I didn't want to have a nanny do anything. I wanted to do everything myself. When my son was about six months old, I started to think, I have this itch to get back, because I am an artist. I have something to say.

 

Kit: And along came Iron Man.

 

Paltrow: It was a perfect job for me. During the shoot in Los Angeles, my son turned one. My kids went to the same nursery school that I went to when I was little. I wasn't in any of the film's action sequences, so I would just be home. A 30 second scene would take two weeks of shooting. I'd be in the pool with my kids, loving life. I worked three days a week, it was genius.

 

Kit: Is it easier now that they are getting older?

 

Paltrow: Sort of. To be honest, I think my son is a bit young for me to be away. I mean, I brought them with me to Nashville to shoot Country Strong, but that was really tricky in and of itself because the part required for me to be in a really different head space. I really feel like during the first five years of a child's life it's really important to be there as much as you can. Now my children are self-sufficient. They really have an inner life and they know what they want and they know who they are. I think that it's okay to work. I just feel lucky that I don't have to do every day, 9 to 5. When I'm gone, I'm really gone. When I'm home, I'm really home. That's the way it works in our house.

 

Kit: Your father (filmmaker Bruce Paltrow) passed away before you met your husband and started your own family unit. How has your father's death affected you?

 

Paltrow: It was the most pivotal moment of my life. And it was terrible. When people ask me, 'How do you do a scene like that where you cry all day?' it's like, I have so much pain over the loss of that man. Like I could cry for 100 years. It's really hard for me knowing that my kids will never know him. It's really hard for me to realize that if he were to come back to life, he wouldn't know where I lived, he wouldn't know my phone number, he wouldn't know my kids, he wouldn't know my husband. He wouldn't know my life. It's still such a hard thing to get my head around, but it's my reality. I have friends who didn't know their fathers and it's no big deal for them.

 

Kit: Like it's completely normal for them.

 

Paltrow: Right. And that's just not my story, so it's very sad for me because he was such a great guy. He was so funny. It just sucks, it really just sucks. That's it.

 

Kit: Shifting gears a bit, what was it like immersing yourself in country music for Country Strong?

 

Paltrow: I think there's something so deeply refreshing about it. I'm so sick of the New York cynicism and the hipper than thou - I'm just sick of it. It just seems tired to me. With country music, there's no irony, there's no cynicism. It's true blue. I just find it really refreshing.

 

Kit: It is what it is. There's no reading between the lines.

 

Paltrow: It's like, let's not be esoteric and, like, too cool for school. It's like, let's just be who we are and be awesome and full of soul and truth.

 

Kit: You delivered a terrific performance in the film. Let's go back in time to your performance in Shakespeare in Love. Pre-kids, pre-marriage, etc. Does that feel like a hundred years ago?

 

Paltrow: 120 years ago! It feels like another life, like I can barely remember it. Also because it was so stressful and certain people around me had cancer and it was just horrible.

 

Kit: If you had to do the awards race all over again at this stage of your life, it would probably be very different, wouldn't it?

 

Paltrow: Oh yeah, for sure. I think that it's so intense to go through something like that, especially when you're -- I mean, I was like 26 years old. It's really, like, a baby. And it's a lot of current towards you. I couldn't handle it. Now, I could. But back then, I had no idea what hit me. It was crazy.

 

Kit: The win must have been career changing for you?

 

Paltrow: Well, I think what it does is, because without even realizing it, people put these goalposts in your psyche. It's like, if you are a professor, you want tenure. If you're an actor, you want an Oscar. It's just something that gets in there through the culture. So you're striving for this thing and then you get one. And you're like, okay, so I'm 26 years old and I supposedly have achieved everything I set out to achieve. Who am I and what do I actually want, and where am I going?

Those shoes are revolting

Out and about in New York City - January 26 & 27

 

 

source: justjared.com

don't come in the Gwyneth thread very often so forgive me if ithis has already been mentioned.

 

There's a sneak preview of the new series of Who Do You Think You Are Season 2 on NBC but I can't watch it because I'm not in the USA

 

looks like Mrs Chris Martin is one of the episodes

 

I started a WDYTYA thread in Entertianment & Arts,

love the military jacket!

 

Those shoes are revolting

 

I agree with you both

:) Thanks, Jen !

I loooove that jacket!

her shoes and jacket look good..

 

I know this is not the exact thread but I'm wondering if anybody help me about Chris and Gwyneth how they met. Cuz i watched and interview of Chris and a little confused :S I searched in this forum but couldn't find any title about it.

her shoes and jacket look good..

 

I know this is not the exact thread but I'm wondering if anybody help me about Chris and Gwyneth how they met. Cuz i watched and interview of Chris and a little confused :S I searched in this forum but couldn't find any title about it.

 

From wikipedia:

 

In October 2002, Paltrow met Chris Martin of the British rock group Coldplay backstage at a gig just three weeks after the death of her father Bruce Paltrow

Wiki is right for once! :P

 

She had been to a few Coldplay gigs over that summer, just because she liked the band and the papers had decided it was because they were dating, so Chris had made a joke at a gig she was at in August and dedicated IMP to "my girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow" even though they'd never met.

 

They didn't actually meet until October 2002, even though the press had had them dating for months.

 

I don't know why I remember things like this...:thinking: I remember stupid things and then forget to pay my bills...my brain has its priorities all wrong :P

I don't know why I remember things like this...:thinking: I remember stupid things and then forget to pay my bills...my brain has its priorities all wrong :P

 

:laugh3:

I love the entirety of that outfit. :smug:

Wiki is right for once! :P

 

She had been to a few Coldplay gigs over that summer, just because she liked the band and the papers had decided it was because they were dating, so Chris had made a joke at a gig she was at in August and dedicated IMP to "my girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow" even though they'd never met.

 

They didn't actually meet until October 2002, even though the press had had them dating for months.

 

I don't know why I remember things like this...:thinking: I remember stupid things and then forget to pay my bills...my brain has its priorities all wrong :P

 

I love that story because I love Twilight-Zoney coincidences like that...aaand it's also adorable :wacky:.

 

And I'm the same way, i can rattle off ridiculous facts and dates about Coldplay and things in my own life like an encyclopedia, but sit me in front of a history exam and I'll have no idea about anything :lol:.

Wiki is right for once! :P

 

She had been to a few Coldplay gigs over that summer, just because she liked the band and the papers had decided it was because they were dating, so Chris had made a joke at a gig she was at in August and dedicated IMP to "my girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow" even though they'd never met.

 

They didn't actually meet until October 2002, even though the press had had them dating for months.

 

I don't know why I remember things like this...:thinking: I remember stupid things and then forget to pay my bills...my brain has its priorities all wrong :P

 

 

Is there a Video of Chris and IMP and the dedication????:)

Wiki is right for once! :P

 

She had been to a few Coldplay gigs over that summer, just because she liked the band and the papers had decided it was because they were dating, so Chris had made a joke at a gig she was at in August and dedicated IMP to "my girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow" even though they'd never met.

 

They didn't actually meet until October 2002, even though the press had had them dating for months.

 

That's cute. Seems like they were meant to be, lol.

thats so cute

Is there a Video of Chris and IMP and the dedication????:)

 

ive been looking for a video of that for a long time and have never found one

Is there a Video of Chris and IMP and the dedication????:)

 

ive been looking for a video of that for a long time and have never found one

Wiki is right for once! :P

 

She had been to a few Coldplay gigs over that summer, just because she liked the band and the papers had decided it was because they were dating, so Chris had made a joke at a gig she was at in August and dedicated IMP to "my girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow" even though they'd never met.

 

They didn't actually meet until October 2002, even though the press had had them dating for months.

 

I don't know why I remember things like this...:thinking: I remember stupid things and then forget to pay my bills...my brain has its priorities all wrong :P

 

thanks :D your memory is very good :) :)

Gwyneth Paltrow: Beyonce's Talent Is 'Mind-Blowing' - People.com

Beyoncé was a great teacher to Gwyneth Paltrow while the latter was learning to be a musical performer for Country Strong. Perhaps a little too great.

 

"Beyoncé is the most talented human being on the planet," Paltrow, 38, tells Harper's Bazaar U.K. in its March issue, on newsstands Thursday. "She has so much mastery over what she does. It's not even confidence – it's on a whole other level. It's mind-blowing."

 

Beyoncé, 29, was trying to be helpful, but Paltrow at times found her example intimidating. "I watched her [perform] a lot to see how she did it, and I was like 'S---! I can't do that!' " Paltrow says.

 

The actress ended up becoming a very believable country singer for the film role. But she was still terrified when called on to perform live at the CMA Awards in November.

 

"Two weeks before I did it, I was dying," she says. "I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I was like, 'Why would I say yes to this? What is wrong with me? What kind of maniac would agree to do this?' "

 

Much to Paltrow's surprise, the performance went well. She says: "It was one of those nights I'll look back on and think, 'Wow, I can't believe I actually pulled that off.' "

 

Gwyneth Paltrow: I 'don't care' that people are 'mean' about Goop

 

Gwyneth Paltrow thinks wild animals are fierce - at least when it comes to fashion.

 

The actress donned several different outfits with animal prints for an upcoming 10-page spread in Harper's Bazaar UK.

 

Paltrow graces the cover of the magazine's March "Fashion to Music" issue, since she very recently made the transition from stylish actress to bonafide country star with the release of her film "Country Strong."

 

The 38-year-old admitted to the magazine that she had trouble eating and sleeping before her November performance at the Country Music Awards.

 

Now it's "one of those nights I'll look back on and think, 'Wow, I can't believe I actually pulled that off,'" she said.

 

But Paltrow is just as focused on pulling off some other things, like raising her two children with husband rocker Chris Martin and running her lifestyle newsletter/website, Goop.

 

Paltrow and Martin are raising daughter Apple, 6, and son Moses, 4, in England, where "people are cool" and "laid back."

 

The March issue of Harper's Bazaar hits newsstands on Feb. 3.

 

"Beyoncé did the school run with me once, and everyone was fine," she recalled. "They also have really good anti-paparazzi rules… I miss America, but I love living in the UK."

 

And though Goop has been criticized both in the United States and abroad, Paltrow said it's "totally fine."

 

"Any time you do anything with any degree of sincerity, people make fun of you," she said. "I don't care. I don't read any of it."

 

Well, that's not entirely true.

 

"There were a couple of times when I thought 'I'm just gonna stop doing it. People are so mean to me. I don't want to do it,'" she explained. "But then I was like, 'Who cares what some lame person out there says?'"

 

Paltrow shared a story about meeting an "old man" in Italy, who said he "had the best time" in Nashville, Tenn., because of tips he found via Goop.

 

"And that is so worth it to me," she said.

 

Gwyneth Paltrow In Harper's Bazaar UK: 'People Are So Mean To Me'

 

Gwyneth Paltrow covers the March issue of Harper's Bazaar UK, on newsstands Thursday. Inside the magazine Gwyneth poses for a racy animal print shoot, talks about her love of Beyonce and defends her lifestyle newsletter, GOOP.

 

Some recent GOOP topics that have been criticized for being out of touch: a 21-day elimination cleanse, how to balance work and motherhood and footwear suggestions for winter.

 

Harper's Bazaar's press release follows:

 

On Beyonce, who offered Gwyneth performance advice for her role in 'Country Strong':

"Beyonce is the most talented human being on the planet. She has so much mastery over what she does. It's not even confidence - it's on a whole other level. It's mind-blowing. I watched her (perform) a lot to see how she did it, and I was like 'Shit! I can't do that!'"

 

On living in the UK:

"In England, people are cool. They're really laid back and calm. Beyonce did the school run with me once, and everyone was fine. They also have really good anti-paparazzi rules. If you're driving in a car and they make you feel freaked out, that's against the law. They can't put you in a magazine unless they pixelate the kids' faces. I miss America, but I love living in the UK."

 

On playing an ex-addict in 'Country Strong':

"I understand how you can do something bad for you because I smoked forever. I smoked even when my dad had throat cancer. I was like 'I know this is probably going to kill me, but I'm going to smoke it anyway.' But I didn't understand wrecking other people's lives, and then kind of just waking up and tying your shoes. So he helped me figure that out." (Paltrow gave up smoking in 2003 when she found out she was pregnant with her daughter Apple).