Gwyneth Paltrow’s press tour for the soon-to-be-total bomb Country Strong continues. It’s actually enough to make me sympathetic towards Gwyneth – she used to be a decent actress, back in the day, under specific circumstances. How the mighty have fallen, etc. Except that it’s impossible to have sympathy for Gwyneth when she’s too busy gooping about how EVERYTHING in her life is so great, and how all of her “dear friends” are just amazing, and didn’t you hear that she recently ran into her best friend Beyonce and they were discussing her best friend Robert Downey Jr., and then Deepak Chopra and Brad Pitt came over and wasn’t that weird? Gwyneth hasn’t spoken to them since she last saw Ben Affleck, over at Madonna’s… or maybe it was Stella McCartney’s. Or Valentino’s. Didn’t you hear, Anna Wintour just told me how they redid that castle, she stayed there with her loving husband Chris Martin, who appreciates her so much.
So, name-dropping is an art Gwyneth has mastered, and she’s been doing it through the whole press tour. The latest name-drop: Tom Cruise. Seriously, Goop? You’re going to whore out Tom Cruise’s name to help you sell your Britney Spears bender movie?
Gwyneth Paltrow has smooched some hot men on the big screen – paging Jude Law and Brad Pitt – but the Oscar winner has no problem picking her favorite: Tom Cruise.
“I did a little cameo once at the beginning of Austin Powers 3, I think it was, and I got to make out with Tom Cruise,” Paltrow, 38, tells the host on Friday’s Rachael Ray Show. “He was an amazing kisser!”
As for her current role in Country Strong, Paltrow confessed to some transgressions from her normally clean-living philosophy to help her get into character as an alcoholic singer.
“You just get really drunk all the time,” she says. “Which is awesome! At least I did anyway, it’s not very professional. There’s a Bloody Mary at 10 a.m. and keep it going all day!”
The thrill, she added, was stepping outside her regimented life.
“It was actually very liberating and amazing to play somebody who just didn’t think about consequences because I’m so responsible with my life, and too worried about everybody and my kids and where’s everybody going,” Paltrow says.
Aside from the daily Bloody Marys, Paltrow jokes that she’d probably only be able to perform at the Oscars “maybe with some Xanax!” But added, “I’ve learned never to say never at this point in my career. If you told me that I would’ve been playing the Country Music Awards, I would have said never.”
[From People]
Is it sad? Or funny? I know Gwyneth-defenders say that she’s just a bit snooty and stuck up her own ass, but that she’s overall a good person. Maybe. Or maybe she’s just awful and completely terrible. Or something in between. I’ll buy that she’s a great mom, and that she’s in a bad marriage, and that she’s too uptight and snotty to consider a divorce, which she likely thinks is merely for peasants. I’ll also buy that her career is very funky at this point, and she might want to consider sticking to character roles or period pieces, something where she doesn’t have to be the centerpiece.
Also, about Goop and her drinking: “You just get really drunk all the time. Which is awesome! At least I did anyway, it’s not very professional. There’s a Bloody Mary at 10 a.m. and keep it going all day!” This explains so much.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Has Goop ever heard of TMI?
I saw that blip about Tom Cruise and I couldn’t remember them doing a movie together (maybe they haven’t and it’s just in Goopy’s drunken dream).
“I know Gwyneth-defenders say that she’s just a bit snooty and stuck up her own ass…”
LMAO-What do her detractors say?
As for whether or not she is a good person. Eh I think she means well, I don’t know if she can help being so obnoxious. She is spoiled and at one time she was the cat’s pajamas and now she isn’t anymore. I am sure she loves her kids but her husband obviously doesn’t support her career in any visible way. I actually could feel sorry for her except she still is gorgeous and loaded etc etc.
Good person !? Lol! … that’s the funniest thing I heard said about “Fishsticks” I said it before and I’ll say it again She’s a starf*cker .She be your friend as long as you’re popular and kiss her ass (just as Madonna).She comes off very prim and proper but she’s just the opposite.If only Brad and Ben would would get together and write a tell all.That would be interesting .More interesting than her boring movie.
Please, don’t hate me but I kind of like her. She seems nice. Not an amazing actress but sometimes worth seen. I still I don’t understand why she hates Winona. Retro scandal?
I love how having to slum it for the midwest on this promotion tour makes Gwenny act like a broken robot. “My husband never has time to teach me guitar, like all men, right ladies?.. I mean of course he helped me, I am in a stable and precious marriage. Alcohol addiction is a disgusting thing…er, unless you darlin’s like to drink, cause I sure do, at ten in the morning, yeee doggy!”
“It was actually very liberating and amazing to play somebody who just didn’t think about consequences because I’m so responsible with my life”
and there it is, the reminder that she is so much better than the rest of us.
Oh man. I wish this Country Strong promotion could go on forever. Your updates are just too hilarious.
Hey Kaiser you forgot to mention that her dear friend Mario Batali would make her pasta and meatballs made with real pork sausage to help her gain weight to play the alcoholic country singer. “I am naturally very thin and it is really hard for me to put on weight, but my lovely friend, Mario Batali, he’s an Iron Chef, you know, not as handsome as Bobby Flay, but a much better chef. Mario is an artist where as Bobby, well, he is very good at grilling. Anyway, Mario helped me to gain ten pounds by feeding me homemade pasta and sausage balls.”
“Except that it’s impossible to have sympathy for Gwyneth when she’s too busy gooping about how EVERYTHING in her life is so great, and how all of her “dear friends” are just amazing, and didn’t you hear that she recently ran into her best friend Beyonce and they were discussing her best friend Robert Downey Jr., and then Deepak Chopra and Brad Pitt came over and wasn’t that weird? Gwyneth hasn’t spoken to them since she last saw Ben Affleck, over at Madonna’s… or maybe it was Stella McCartney’s. Or Valentino’s. Didn’t you hear, Anna Wintour just told me how they redid that castle, she stayed there with her loving husband Chris Martin, who appreciates her so much.”
😀 Kaiser if I sung that way and if I knew you in real life I’d give you a big kiss on the mouth for this write up. It’s even funnier because it’s true.
Er, *swung.
yes, she’s so responsible.
pregnant first, married later. immediately after her dad’s death. makes for a great marriage. shot gun much?
saying how great drinking all day is but how she is such a hands on mother. how does that work? she does say it is unprofessional but forgot to mention how unparental drinking the day away is. was she just boozing with the kids around or letting the nannies do all the work? and the maids? and the chefs?
for someone that claims to keep her private life private she certainly has a big mouth.
they made her sign some sort of amazing contract to get her to do the 24/7 promotion for this stinker she stars in. she begged for the role and had to suck it up that she would have to do the sort of circuit circus she is doing.
another fail bomb for paltry. people don’t like her; she can’t open a movie.
i enjoy the fact they are making her humiliate herself by stepping down off her pedestal to promote this hack film.
i’m enjoying it too much probably.
name dropping is just the cherry on top.
I’m sorry. I just don’t get why GP gets so many vitriolic comments: I have never seen her throw up in the bushes, get caught with her pants missing or generally acting in any undignified manner. Nor have I ever read an interview or seen one when she had any negative comment about anyone. She seems like a genuinely nice person who is blessed in many ways.
Oh the reviews are not good. But that trailer has been running non-stop in Texas.
The one thing that has changed. The new trailer barely has Gwyneth in it.
It is mostly the little brunette girl and that hick looking guy. Which I am telling you is not any better than Gwyneth shaking her thing.
Ohhh and they laid a voice over on it now touting its “Golden Globe Nomination”! I was not even aware it got any nominations. (Maybe for set design?)
OMG she is so freaking desperate!
I wish her movie would totally bomb so she can get lost.
Hilariously perfect intro par, Kaiser!
Where someone else could talk about their celeb friends and genuinely share the experience, Goopy is merely reminding us of the circles within which she moves.
poppy- LMAO. i’m glad someone else said it.
i just looked @ rotten tomatoes. country strong has a 20% critics rating.
The Goopy hate is so boring. It makes it yet again clear that America loves rich people but hates smart through and through.
Well,she missed the boat on him or dare I say,she tried and he didn’t want her? Together, they could have been the most NAUSEATING couple ever in Hollywood’s history.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, I see…
Blergh – Sure Goopy hate is boring (yet fun)…
However, in all honesty, how do you surmise that Gwynnie is smart? If she were truly smart, she would have known she wasn’t the one to sell a character like Kelly Canter. Indirectly, she’ll be why this film fails.
She talks about country music and its culture like it’s this exotic thing here in the US… she’s never it experienced before, and she loves it just so much… that’s such a snob (with a strong streak of clueless)thing to say! SHe’s so enlightened, worldly and stylish, and look what she’s bringing to us… The truth is, she’s surrounded herself with a bunch of yes-head sycophants that feed her head that EVERYTHING she does is Good…and somehow they convinced her that bc she could carry a tune, she can pass herself off as homespun, heartland or “country”.
Unless they rename the film from “COUNTRY STRONG” to “COUNTRY WRONG”, who would buy this? The film so far just looks like try-hard trash.
Hold on, it’s her ladyship Gwyneth…
“Rubbish”… that’s better.
You know this woman has a name-dropping addiction when she shows off about Tom friggin Cruise.
@annaloo: I’ve never ‘experienced’ country music or it’s culture. I guess that makes me a snob, too. Huh, I never knew it! Damnit.
i love being appalled at how annoying goop is.
I hope this movie does ok because I like Garrett and Leighton.
I wonder if she was hoping to imitate Reese Witherspoon? Remember how Reese starred in that country themed movie (can’t remember the title) and did very well?
“… too worried about everybody and my kids and where’s everybody going,” Paltrow says.
She’s going to be one of those old ladies who peers at her neighbors through the curtains.
poppy- judgemental much? Who cares that she married after she had his baby. r u living in 1900’s????
Blergh -Not all us Americans prefer rich vs intelligent =)
@annaloo. I’m no fan of Gwyneth but she is reasonably talented. I loved her in Sliding Doors, The Royal Tennenbaums and a couple of other movies and she *can* carry a tune, imo. It’s her snotty, entitled attitude that overshawdows everything.
Hollywood — hates heartland, or doesn’t understand heartland? Giving Dixie Chicks a Grammy for country was an FU (Dixie is now Canada and Massachusetts where they are seriously trying to relaunch), but this one’s hard to say.
Anywhoodledoodles, it’s insulting they didn’t get one of the zillion country chicks to play this part but England’s been suffering far longer with her posing in all their famous roles.
But word on the streets is they’re doing promotion without Goop everywhere besides Cali and NY. Actually presenting the movie as if it doesn’t star her. Having the brunette call it “my movie, Country Strong.” LOL.
So Hollywood gets that she was an insulting pick for the role but flipped the red states yet another bird? Didn’t get it and are now trying a new desperate strategy, pretend the star isn’t the star. Going to try to sell an Americana flick mostly in Europe? Or can’t help but follow music industry’s path to red ink? Mystery.
She is a really great person I don’t know why there is all the trash talk…
A friend of mine used to work for her and loved it. She sounds like a genuinely lovely, interesting, thoughtful person. Too bad that doesn’t come across press-wise.
i was at the newsstand yesterday with a friend and we saw a magazine called “country weekly” and there on the cover were goopy and tim mcgraw. i didn’t read the interview because i was afraid my guffaws would disturb the other people there but my friend skimmed it. i asked how goop came across and my friend laughed and said “just as goopy as always.” we then proceeded to talk in bad country accents for about an hour.
yes, we are that juvenile.
Too bad for the US Madge and Gwenny moved back stateside. They’re so irritating with their pseudo Brit accents and their 4real snobbishness. It’s so condescending to say how she liked playing the part of an alcoholic cuz she got to guzzle down booze all day. We know she really didn’t little Macrobiotic queen that she is. It just sounds like she’s a better actress because she got into character. She’s always been frosty on screen.Brittany Spears would have been better for the role, or Drew Barrymore, Amy Winehouse, hell even Lilo, thousands of others. Her agent pushed for her. And she realizes the gay Cruise rumors so that’s why she says Tom Cruise is an amazing kisser. Goop squared!
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