Gwyneth Paltrow tells the world how strange it is to be a famous person.
‘I’ve been in the public eye for so many years, the surrealistic part was famous, basically my whole adult life, so I do not know what it means to be an adult without all the research and all the wonderful things and terrible things that go along with it. going with a famous person, ‘Paltrow (48) told Anna Faris on Monday Anna Faris is unqualified podcast. ‘I think our culture idealizes fame so much, and I think it actually is [a] a pretty terrible thing to be known, if our goal on the planet is to have human development and to really become the best, best version of ourselves. I think fame is a big obstacle to that, and I had to work very hard to separate the fame from me. ‘
For that reason, Paltrow has yet to read anything about herself. But she did not know she had to do this when she started appearing regularly in movies in the 90s.
‘When I became famous, I was probably about 22 years old, and you know, I started, and you have a public and every day the public – that’s a way of internet – would fax, you know, you in Our Magazine, which was a monthly magazine at the time, or if they were to fax you, you know: ‘Oh, you’re in the New York Times today, ” Paltrow said. “And literally six months later, I said, ‘I have to stop this. It’s not healthy. It has nothing to do with me. I get excited when someone writes something good. I get depressed when someone writes something bad. That’s not my business. ”
Since then, the Goop magnate has said that as a person she is focused on who she is, and realizes that she cannot allow outside opinions to influence her relationship with herself.
Paltrow, the daughter of the late director Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner, appears in her first theater film, Shout, with John Travolta and Heather Graham, as a teenager in 1991. Seven years later she won an Oscar for her performance in Shakespeare in love.
When Faris asked Paltrow what it looked like to her, she described it as strange.
“I made a movie in Vancouver. My dad was directing and he was recovering from this crazy cancer operation at the time, and I’m so glad I focused on him,” said Paltrow, whose father died of oral cancer. . in 2002. ‘My whole family was there, my brother [director Jake Paltrow] and my mom, we teamed up just like a family to get my dad through this movie, which was very difficult. And thank the Lord, on which I had to focus it, because it was the strangest, most surreal time. ‘
Although it was exciting, Paltrow felt insecure.
“You know, you’re also a little embarrassed because you’d been nominated for an Oscar, and you have cheat syndrome and think, ‘I can not even believe it’s happening. I’m not even that good. “And, ‘Does everyone hate me?'” Said Paltrow, who is married to TV writer Brad Falchuk. “It’s the weirdest time, but at the same time, in my case, I haven’t won yet, so I was like, ‘Well, of course I’m not going to win, but it’s kind of cool too. ”
After Paltrow won the award, of which she acknowledges that people do not care so much outside of Los Angeles, it became even stranger.
“When you have so much attention on you and so much energy, it was really overwhelming,” she said. ‘I remember staying with my parents in their house in Santa Monica, and I hid only three weeks later. It was so intense, and I felt so … lonely is the right word. It was really weird. ‘
Faris joked: ‘I felt that way when I got Scare movie. I can totally tell Gwyneth. ‘
Paltrow also talked about the times before she was an award-winning actress. She said that her father both told her and her brother that they were not entitled to his money, and therefore they still started working at school.
“And he said, ‘You can enjoy it while you’re here, and I love you, and I’ll share it with you while you live with me, but when you’re done, you’re done. “Like, ‘I’m not giving you a penny, I’ll never help you,’ and he stuck to it, ‘Paltrow explained. “So you know, we had jobs after school. My brother worked at the deli on the corner. I worked at a toy store. I worked at a ski shop. I worked in the summer. I worked. He’s like, ‘If you want money, you have to work for the money.’ beautiful, you know, townhouse in Manhattan. So it was a funny composition. A very valuable parenting lesson. “
She said he stuck to his “no help” rule, even after she was in college trying to act.
“I mean, there were times like, ‘But I have no gas money to get to this audition,'” she said. “And he was like, ‘This is not my problem. I love you, but that’s not my problem. “
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