Gwyneth Paltrow deigned to sit down for a full-length interview with Howard Stern yesterday. She’s promoting Mortdecai, the Scarfy Depp movie that he hasn’t lifted a finger to promote. Should we give Gwyneth credit for doing her job and hustling a crappy movie like a pro? Save that thought. I want you to do something very important…try to get through this entire Howard Stern interview. Just when I think I can handle a lot of GOOP, I sit down and try to listen to her nasal voice and I just can’t. I had to breeze through this thing. The first 15 minutes is a lot about her life as an actress, her career, how quickly she can memorize a script. Boring. You can skip a lot of that stuff. There’s some NSFW language but she’s not dropping f-bombs right and left.
Around the 19-minute mark is Gwyneth talking about whether women are jealous of her (she doesn’t believe women are jelly). 20-minute mark: she’s talking about her best famous friend, Cameron Diaz, and how she’s also super-tight with Jay-Z and Beyonce. She says she called Beyonce “right away” after the Met Gala elevator incident but Gwyneth doesn’t offer any details about the incident.
But everyone is talking the parts where Goop discusses her famous exes. Around the 26-minute mark, it begins. Howard asks her a million questions about Brad Pitt and she said: “I definitely fell in love with him. He was so gorgeous and sweet. I mean, he was Brad Pitt!” She says that they’re still “friendly” but “I don’t, like, hang out with him.” Howard says that Gwyneth was the love of Brad’s life (O RLY?) and Goop laughs and says it’s not true, but she never once mentions Angelina Jolie. Apparently, Bruce Paltrow loved Brad as a son and when Goop and Brad broke up, Bruce was “devastated.” As for the breakup, Gwyneth is still saying that she was the one who messed it up (the rumor going around at the time was that she cheated on him, right?). She tells Howard: “I was such a kid, I was 22 when we met. It’s taken me until 40 to get my head out of my ass. You can’t make that decision when you’re 22 years old… I wasn’t ready, and he was too good for me… I didn’t know what I was doing.”
Gwyneth is less generous about Ben Affleck. This part is around 36:30 minute mark. Goop says that Affleck “was not in a good place in his life to have a girlfriend.” Stern asked her about her old remark that Affleck would be better off with a Scores stripper and Goop says “Well, that was true at the time…” And Gwyneth’s parents didn’t care for Affleck either. Goop says that she’s still friends with Ben and “he settled down, and his wife is awesome! Not only is she beautiful, she’s so warm and she cooks, and she’s so into her kids. She’s hilarious… I had a girls dinner before this summer. (She’s my neighbor.) I really like her a lot.” Is this shade on Jennifer Garner? I don’t really think it is.
Goop also says that famous rumor about stealing the Shakespeare In Love script from Winona Ryder is not true. Gwyneth says she was offered the role in SIL and she turned it down, then they were looking at other actresses, then she was convinced by other people to do the role. That’s her story. 35-minute mark: Gwyneth says that her work stands up and “no one” says she didn’t deserve the Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. Um. WHAT?! Lots and lots of people said that. People are still saying that. People are still mad that Cate Blanchett didn’t win that year!!
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Lol have to love her unapologetic smugness.
I used to really dislike her but now I see she’s just trolling everyone and it’s hilarious. You do you, Gwenyth. You do you.
Also kudos to Howard Stern. He makes everyone he interviews seem more human.
Yes he does. I’ve loved Howard for years. I couldn’t believe she went on his show so she gets kudos from me. I’ll bet Howard’s wife was dying to get in that room.
He’s the King. You have to be a magician to make GOOP seem interesting.
Kitten: I started listening to Howard after you gave him a good review in a post last year.
He has a really good interview style, and he makes most of them sound like decent human beings. Even Harvey Weinstein!!!
And I love Robin.
+1 Gwyn may turn into the master troll of all media. I wouldn’t mind – the jail cake incident was hilarious
I always think it’s weird when (famous) people talk about their past exes–the ones that they’re not friendly with, or have any sort of particular relationship currently. Like while I wouldn’t really care about them talking about me….I sort of would. I don’t know–it’s just off to me. I just feel like there is so much more potential for you to say something stupid or dumb or get something stirred up–I wouldn’t really go there unless it was something important. I guess I’m just weird.
I like hearing about past celeb relationships when everyone’s old and grey, lol. Like Elizabeth Taylor talking about all of her ex husbands to what’s her face from The View.
I think it was wierd that she, kinda, dissed Ben, when she says they are neighbors and is friends with his wife….She could have just said, “we weren’t right for each other” or something! Of course, she’s not the sharpest tool in the shed!
I don’t think she dissed Affleck. He went to rehab after or during his time with Paltrow. Let’s not forget Affleck is another actor that had a substance abuse problem.
She didn’t diss him at all. She said at that point in his life he shouldn’t have had a girlfriend. He has said the practically the same thing in an old interview back then. Howard brought up that stripper club thing and she just laughed and said back then that was true. She said he’s very intelligent and has since settled down. She said her parents did like him but weren’t that upset they didn’t last. Back then is when Ben had his drinking and pill problem and was out of control. She said she and Ben are still friends.
They’ve done this before. Just from Wikipedia, “Paltrow later said that Affleck ‘makes life tough for himself. He’s got a lot of complication, and you know, he really is a great guy.’ Affleck responded: ‘She’s probably right about that. I trust her opinion about most things. Not all, but most. I think I probably do get in my own way.” I think if she’s “kinder” to Brad it’s probably because she knows she screwed up big time, or at the least it says something that her story has never changed about being to blame for the split. It’s also a bit of a different situation since she’s still in contact with Ben, (it seems like all his exes do the same, doesn’t it?)
@MrsBPitt, who wrote: “I think it was wierd that she, kinda, dissed Ben, when she says they are neighbors and is friends with his wife….She could have just said, “we weren’t right for each other” or something! Of course, she’s not the sharpest tool in the shed!”
You know, just like I really believe J-Lo was ‘the one’ for Ben Affleck, I think Ben Affleck was ‘the one’ for Goop. He is the only male actor I can think of who can match her ‘smug’ and I think she gets off on the ‘Bad’ boy thing. That’s why she ran to the ‘Wolf in him’ (don’t you just love the film “Moonstruck”?) and why it didn’t work with Brad (he’s basically just a nice boy from Missouri).
Yeah, I think “how awkward” whenever I hear Gwyneth talking about her ex-es. Maybe if they had actually been married, it wouldn’t seem weird, but since they never made it to the altar, I find it baffling that she talks about her ex-boyfriends. She moves from talking about Brad Pitt to Ben Affleck to Chris Martin, as if they all were married to her. Only one of them was! Then I wonder how the boyfriends who never get talked about must feel (I’m sure Gwyneth has had a ton) as much as I wonder whether Brad is thinking to himself “Why is she talking about me?” I assume Ben must not mind since he talks about J-Lo a lot.
I mean, Angelina and Brad were only married this past year. Does that mean they didn’t have a relationship worth mentioning? Of course not. Marriage isn’t the gauge of a relationship. A lot of marriages, like Katy Perry and Russell Brand, are the ones not worth mentioning.
In general, no, marriage isn’t always an accurate gauge of how deep a relationship is (especially where celebrities are concerned — i.e Tom and Katie).
But in this individual case I think Brad has moved on, and so did Gwyneth, and this relationship was 20 years ago and before the several kids they’ve now had. It wasn’t my intent to dis one form of relationship over another, but Gwyneth talking about Brad in this instance when it’s now 2015 does seem comparatively awkward to someone talking about their more recent relationship break-up.
To be fair Brad talked about his time with Jennifer Anniston so its not just Paltrow doing this
At least Brad and Jennifer were actually married. I guess I find it less weird when married ex-es talk about each other (or common-law ex-es like insert couple X) but when Gwyneth is talking about boyfriend Brad Pitt circa 1995 it comes off as…I don’t know….how to describe it exactly, but it’s funny. I assume young couples like Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez talk about each other in interviews, but they’re still pretty young, and their break-up is more recent, and they have the tween crowd to entertain with their romantic antics.
Brad Pitt has never been this candid in an interview about his past relationships. In ten years he’s probably said about three sentences about his ex wife.
Goop knows no one wants to see her movie. All the previews don’t even mention her because she isn’t a box office draw and Johnny Depp is barely an office draw at this point. She knows talking in detail about her exes to Howard Stern will get her some press.
perplexed, I don’t think she’s the one initiating talk about Brad, Stern (or whoever) is asking her. No they weren’t married but they were a high profile couple and people (media people, at least) clearly are still interested in dishing about it.
True I think she’s feeding a media need (and today’s celebrity pairings are boring), but it will always be funny to me when Gwyneth is talking about Brad (maybe because she does it so often. I feel as though she’s talked about Ben and Brad as much their wives have).
True I think she’s feeding a media need (and today’s celebrity pairings are boring), but it will always be funny to me when Gwyneth is talking about Brad (maybe because she does it so often. I feel as though she’s talked about Ben and Brad as much as their wives have).
@Luca76
Brad Pitt keeps breaking his silence on how boring marriage to Jennifer Aniston was
The movie star keeps implying that marriage was deadly boring — and now he’s “happier than he’s ever been
In yet another blow to his ex, he makes it clear that before he met Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2004, his life had little meaning.
It’s not the first time Brad has described life before Angelina as a drug-fueled haze.
In 2011, he told Parade magazine he spent the 1990s ‘sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out’.
He said he felt ‘pathetic’ and that he ‘wasn’t living an interesting life.’
He added: ‘I think that my marriage had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.’
I didn’t say Brad talking about Jennifer isn’t awkward–I think it is, especially since both of them say that they’re friendly, when it’s super clear and obvious that they AREN’T (especially since he and Angelina go out to dinner and premieres with both of Angelina’s exes)……
I find that WHOEVER is talking about an ex that they clearly have NO relationship with, whether or not it’s mutual, is awkward. I think it opens you up to potentially saying something hurtful (when you don’t mean to be), and then that’s another media story because one of you has to publicly apologize, since you said it in public–and that’s gotta be awkward when you probably haven’t thought/talked to/ or heard from the ex that you were talking about since you broke up…..that’s all I was saying.
@Dree in the BS triangle there has been little to no candid talk from any of the three. I stand by what I said he’s uttered three sentences about her in a decade that have been picked over and overblown. The one whose talked the most was Aniston In Vanity Fair. Brad has hinted and been passive aggressive but the direct quotes are in and if themselves vague and bland.
Oh i agree Anniston talked far more than any of the others. I was just saying how Brad hasn’t completely kept his mouth shut. And to be fair Paltrow has said nothing more than what Juliette Lewis said for instance both of them speak very highly of Brad to this date. What Paltrow said about Ben, she pretty much said at the time when they were in a relationship. The stripper comment was far more dismissive than what she said to howard stern, she was actually a lot softer on him which tells you its coming from a place of bitterness its more a fact, ben had problems back then. And the way ben spoke about his time with JLO for instance wasnt much better than what Paltrow said about him I guess i understand that people find paltrow annoying but she is not worse than anybody else in this particular respect.
I feel as though Gwyneth has talked more than all of them combined. She never says anything unflattering about him, but she talks a lot about Pitt (the last time she talked about him, I think she referenced his mother). I don’t think she can say anything unflattering about Pitt though, since it appears she was the one at fault.
I always wonder why she talks about Ben. I never got the sense that the relationship was that deep compared to her other ones. The one with Donovan Leith seemed deeper (weren’t they engaged?), but she rarely mentions him. Although maybe nobody cares….
@perplexed I get what youre saying. but may be Donovan wasn’t that deep. I was with an ex for four years and my current bf for a year. Even if i break up with my current bf right now, what we have is much more real and substantial than what i had with my ex for four years.
On the SIL role, its silly to claim that she stole it. They went with the person they liked best, its that simple. If Wino “drugged up Klepto” Ryder was really the preferred actress she would havr been signed instead.
Maybe because they were friends back then as Wino was dated Matt Damon if I’m correct, it is like a friend code to not go after what someone else had or has the potential to get.
See I dont get this logic. Its seems really juvenile to have a code over what jobs your girlfriends can apply for.
I have a very close friend at work for instance, we went to college together actually and applied to work here at the same time. We both got in but afew of our other buddies didnt, so what? It wasnt personal, other than for one rather petty jealous type, we all remained friends. When opportunities come up at work we both go for it, in fact we egg each other on. If I dont get it then it wasnt mine to begin with. Besides, thats my girl, I love it when one of us wins!
Some women really need to grow out of this “the-sweater-on-sale, the-hot-guy, the-job, is mine because I saw it first” mentality. Its beyond immature.
you are right. you cannot steal a role as producers and diretors decide it. i dont know what happened, but if she went behind Winonas back its still a no go.
Agreed. Unless you actively sabotage someone I don’t see how you could steal a role from them?
I don’t get how Winona could even be considered for the role of Viola in SIL. Just seems such a miscalculation to me. Not saying she’s not talented, but her strength in acting always seemed to lie in contemporary films, not period/costume dramas. I think she would have been HORRIBLE in SIL. Just my $0.02
Clearly you haven’t seen THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, LITTLE WOMEN. All are period dramas and Winona nailed her roles in all of them. She was Oscar nominated for in the support and lead categories for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and LITTLE WOMEN respectively. She won the GG for best support in a drama role for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.
Her British accent was bad in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
I have trouble believing Wino was even offered that role. She had to play a male and she is only 5.3 and very busty.
40 and her head isnt up her arse, it’s in the clouds.
Her pretentiousness is so awe-inspiring. How rich do I have to get before reaching Goop’s level of delusion?
Really? I only listened to parts of the interview but she sounded balanced and sincere to me.
She was very beautiful as a young woman, she should return to the pale skin, dirty blonde hair and accentuate her jawline more.
@Lauren-
I agree; her current styling is dreadful and has been for some time.
She is a pretty girl, but who determined that she was the most beautiful woman in the world? Don’t we all know women who far exceed her? Perhaps this is where all her twitter-pation about herself, began in real earnest – I saw a lot more publicity about her after this judgement (?). I do not believe that women automatically dislike a more beautiful woman – some of them are so stunning to look at. But Goop?
And who is Brad Pitt? (two-timer!) I forgot – this is what everyone does in Hollywood – all those built-in excuses, some of which we could pass around as valid – ha!
Yes, in my opinion, Charlize Theron is worthy of that title, NOT Paltrow, not even close.
Marvel bought it for her during IM3 promotion. It was good for the movie.
It sounds like she likes Jennifer Garner, waaay more than she likes Ben!!!!! I don’t think she was mean- girling Jennifer. And, she’s absolutely right, Brad was and is, too, too, too good for her goopy ass!
Can I just say, look at my baby, Brad in that picture…Dear God, he was sooooooo hot, hot,hot! Actually, he still is!!!
I just have to say how precious their “matching” haircuts are. Whoa!!
I know folks love to tear apart anything she says, but her answers here are pretty normal. She didn’t deserve the Oscar, and people do state that she did not earn it, but she is far from the only one, and I don’t blame her for not acknowledging that. In my mind, she just doesn’t do enough to merit the nonstop hate. It’s exhausting, no?
Even though she gets on my nerves, especially with her uncoupling stuff, I agree that this interview doesn’t bother me. I actually think a lot of her answers are good, and what she says about her answers we’re find IMO. Most people extremely bash or make excuses about exes. Her answers seem truthful. Even though I’m an affleck fan, doesn’t mean I’d want to date him (wouldn’t mind banging him though lol)
+10000 to your comment. I can name a lot more actors-actresses that got undeserved Oscars, and with far less talent that Gwyneth.
“She just doesn’t do enough to merit the nonstop hate. It’s exhausting, no?” : More than exhausting it’s stupid and in some people look like mental cases, and I don’t give a damm if someone else start to give me crap for this comment.
I give you a thumbs up for your post.
+1
This interview was great, and a lot of people probably won’t listen to it. I have always liked her.
Agreed. I think she came across well in this interview. This is actually the side of The Goopmeister that I like, and that we rarely see.
I agree. For sure, she seems to lack self-awareness, but she does live in Tinseltowne, America. Also, I don’t think she is that great an actress – can’t hold a candle to Cate Blanchett who should have won that year IMO.
But I do think she has some kind of point with with some of her new age-y things like ‘conscious uncoupling’ – it might be a bit of hot air but at least it’s an attempt and it’s better than fighting and putting your kids in the middle and all that rot.
She is also responsible for turning me on to oil pulling, that stuff really works and I would never have heard of it if good old CB hadn’t reported her talking about it. (Thanks, CB xo)
Goop is a very talented actress actually.
I absolutely loved her in Proof and Hard Eight. I don’t really get the hype about Blanchett, to me she is always so try hard.
To be fair, I don’t think her win over Blanchett was as ridiculous as some people make out. Blanchett was unbelievably charismatic in a very poor film, but Gwynnie brought a freshness and lightness of touch to bear on her well-written role in SiL. It’s only from the perspective of hindsight and how their careers have developed since then that Blanchett losing to Goop looks odd.
I know, it’s like when MERYL doesn’t win. Just ‘cos she’s MERYL, doesn’t mean she can’t chew up the scenery sometimes. Cate is a serious pro, but it’s not like Gwynnie doesn’t know the game. I loved her in Shakespeare in Love and I believe she was perfect for that role (sorry, Winona).
I saw both movies, and of the two I’d watch Cate’s again….I felt that Shakespare in love was sort of cheesy and hammy…lol. I didn’t think it was a terrible film, but more like a dressed up romcom. The best person in it was Colin Firth (STILL giggle over his pearl earring), and I can’t believe Judy Dench got an Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth. I mean, she was good, but I didn’t consider it to be Oscar worthy or anything special.
Yes, Judi Dench got her Oscar for about five minutes of screen time which involved her being Judi Dench to the max! She’s a brilliant actress (I’ve seen her a few times doing theatre in London), so it’s not exactly a case of an undeserved Oscar in career terms – but she probably got it for two days work. As regards SiL, I agree that as a film it hasn’t stood up very well – but it was witty and well-written, and featured good performances all round.
well, SIL IS a dressed up rom com-it didn’t try to be anything else, IMO.
But if action movies can win awards, or thrillers, etc. why can’t rom-coms? SIL was a great, fun take on shakespeare IMO. I agree, it hasn’t stood the test of time-it’s very 1990’s-lol. But I remember loving it and saw it more than once in theaters. Joseph Fiennes and Geoffrey Rush were part of my love for it, though. (:
Blanchett was amazing, true, but I don’t think just b/c that was a big, serious, historical dramatic movie/role with gravitas, that it’s automatically superior to a lighter fare rom com type movie. Comedy and romance make the world go round and make life bearable, frankly. I think it’s really a man’s world/industry that they are dissed all the time. And by women as well as men, with women often bragging that they love comics and superheroes and why can’t we have more women in those male roles, kicking a*s? Fighting and bad as* roles are fun, sure, but not the epitome of women being respected or valued in the industry. While rom coms are considered of no value. Anyway, this is a little off topic now-since Blanchett was in Elizabeth and was outstanding. But, I enjoyed Paltrow so much in her early career. I was bummed that she went into lifestyle etc. instead of staying with acting. She says she did it to be with her kids more, so that’s cool. But I wouldn’t have grown to dislike her as quickly, had she just stuck with movies-lol.
And yes yes yes to her need for a new hairstyle and healthier skin/hair look.
It’s not hindsight that makes people say Cate was the better actress that year.
Cate won ALL the awards going into the Oscars and pretty much everyone, public and critics, agreed that she was the better actor that year. Every review and reviewer, PR driven or not, lauded Cate’s performance.
GOOP winning was a shock, and pretty much everybody has maintained that Cate was robbed from that night until today.
Finally, let’s not forget GOOP’s oscar campaign. She might have been losing on the campaign trail, but she blazed a trail for all the publicly desperate campaigners we see today.
Cate didn’t really campaign. She was new to the game AND had a play in London. She was in that ‘thespian’ category of actors who didn’t see the value of campaigning which is also the reason *Joseph Fiennes was overlooked for both his roles in the two films. Well, after losing that Oscar, she campaigns with all them now!!
*Joseph Fiennes actually took off to India for 6mths to escape the hullabaloo<- his words in an interview a year later.
This was pre-interweb coverage (and almost 20 years ago, in ’98) so I’m not as familiar, but I remember Paltrow and Blanchette being neck and neck through the whole thing, but in addition to Gwyneth being the beneficiary of Harvey’s massive campaign, Cate was in the weaker movie.
I know we’re supposed to think SIL was hopelessly overrated, but I liked it and she was great.
Bridget: I was in celebrity PR in those days, and the campaign GOOP put on was amazing. Really aggressive, never taking any loss lying down. No matter that Cate kept scooping up awards.
Cate’s performance made up for the quality of the film because almost no one except disgruntled historians were talking about the film. Everybody kept talking about Cate’s performance. GOOP’s film was loved simply because of the screenplay and the inventive take, so it was a win for the film, but not necessarily individual performances.
I do, however, remember Hilary Clinton talking about how Cate’s film reminded her of Washington because it captured that sense of political manouvering so well.
I still think Joseph Fiennes was an Idjit for not capitalising on his momentary global spotlight. Every time I see him in rubbish projects or projects no one sees, I feel really bad for him. A sliding doors lesson.
I don’t think anyone’s saying that Gwyneth didn’t put on quite a campaign. But she did win several of the major awards (I had to look it up, but I knew she did because my 16 year old self had wanted to see Cate win) the BAFTA, the SAG, and of course the Golden Globe where she wore that lovely opalescent skirt, so that’s not to say that Cate had a triumphant march through the awards season only to have the big prize elude her. And of course, Gwyneth herself hurt that perception majorly in hindisght with that embarrassing speech and that ill fitting pepto colored gown.
I liked Joseph Fiennes, but I’ll admit that he’s not really a ‘whatever happened to…’ kind of guy for me.
I was sooo in love with Joseph Fiennes after seeing SIL and Elizabeth! I seriously wanted to stalk him, make him fall in love with me, and have lots and lots of his babies. I personally love SIL (and Gwyneth Paltrow) and have seen it handfuls of times. Everytime I see it I fall back in love (and lust) with Joseph Fiennes all over again. That man is so beautiful. I was always sad that he never really got famous.
Don’t talk about off putting Oscar campaigns and not mention Cate Blanchette.
But to be fair these campaigns are not primary pushed by actors/actresses. Studios want recognition for their films and they put large sums of money behind the promotion. If you are an actor/actress on one of those films, you have to campaign. I don’t think anybody believes anymore that an Oscar win has anything to do with talent. Hollywood is a billion dollar money making industry first and foremost.
Campaigns are ultimately about getting as many people as possible to watch your movie, and then making your argument as to why you’re the best. There’s no obligation to vote one way,its still up to the Academy voters. It’s interesting that to win an Oscar one has to campaign, but they can’t campaign too hard or appear to want one too much.
My initial point was, Gwyneth was great in SIL – I don’t think people would have such a problem with her win if her personality wasn’t so off putting, and if there wasn’t the perception that SIL swooped in and took Saving Private Ryan’s Best Picture. It’s a rare year that Best Actress has two legitimately star making performances nominated.
The hell? Elizabeth was much better movie than Shakespeare in Love
I am sure if you asked Winona Ryder, she might disagree.
According to interviews I have read with Ryder, her then bestie Gwyneth stole the script from her home and secretly auditioned for the role that was originally intended for Ryder. Some friend, huh?
Needless to say, I couldn’t see Ryder in that part anyway, she is another very mediocre actress.
While Gwyneth wasn’t awful in the film, it was certainly not an Oscar worthy performance either. She won that statue because Harvey Weinstein has a lot of power and influence in Hollywood, the end. Cate Blanchett was clearly robbed of that award.
I agree. They were both perfect in their different roles. Cate’s was a more serious, dramatic role, and I think a lot of people take that to mean it’s unquestionably the better, more important role. It was certainly the more Oscar friendly role, but for that reason I actually liked seeing the Academy reward something a bit different.
It’s just a question of what different people find more impressive. Some people are blown away by actors like DDL who are practically unrecognizable in each role, some people are more enamored with subtler embodiments of character. Some people like the big bravura dramatic performances, others find more depth in performances that show the lighter facets of a character. IMO Gwyneth and Cate were both equally excellent within the context of their very different films. It just comes down to what style of film and acting you prefer.
I was 18 when she won her Oscar and it was the first time I ever remember thinking “what the actual f*ck?” when I saw she had won over Cate Blanchett, so there ya go Goop. Here is one person who didn’t think you deserved it.
And your dress was sh*t
Which movie was Blanchett in that year?
Elizabeth – a gorgeously shot load of tosh partially redeemed by Blanchett being fabulous as the Queen.
Elizabeth. And she was goooooood in that movie.
BTW Joseph Fiennes was in both SiL and Elizabeth. What happened to his career? I had such a huge crush on him when I was a teen.
Joseph Fiennes apparently hated the spotlight and run away from it for a year.
Unfortunately for him, his failure to capitalise on his one-two punch moment has led to a mediocre career in mediocre projects which is a shame because he really is as talented as his brother Ralph.
Joseph Fiennes was in a really short lived tv show on ABC (I think it was called Flash Forward) and on American Horror Story Asylum. His career definitely petered out.
Here’s another one! I’m still pissed off!
You can add me to your list.
+1,000,000. Cate Blanchett was robbed! And Cate wore such a fabulous dress too.
I loved Gwyneth in Shakespeare in Love and in my opinion her Oscar was well deserved. Btw Cate Blanchett is my favourite actress and she was wonderful in Elizabeth but that doesn’t change the fact that Gwyneth also deserved it.
It is true that Brad does morph into the style of the woman he is dating, it’s like he has no sense of self.
Actually, Brad was sporting this look way before Goopy did.
Oh give me a break.. Some of you bring that up all the time and it is not true.
Brad changes his looks for the roles he plays. The haircut with Goop was for 7 Years and she copied his haircut according to her.
Brad is not talking about her. she is talking about him.
I totally agree. It is so weird. On the one hand, Brad is a real risk taker which is what I think makes him interesting and has kept him relevant. But on the other, he really seems to need women and identifies himself through the women he is with. I am not sure if that is necessarily a bad thing, but it is just a very odd thing, especially for a man like Brad Pitt.
Thanks Rhiley someone doesn’t have their blinders on.
So if you don’t agree you are wearing blinders..
LOL..
I don’t see how you can dispute it. Think about his relationships. When he was with the chick from Dallas he was bubblegum cute with the dimples and the denim, just like her. When he was with Juliette Lewis he was rocknroll edgy, LA club vibe. When he was with Goopy he was all bleach blond with a very New York urban artistic, coffee shop vibe. When he was in between Goopy and Aniston, dating random models, he was all wild long hair, kind of lazy, harmless party goer type. When he was with Aniston he was Malabu Ken. Now that he is with Angie is all about children from all over the globe, flying air planes, hanging out in “the belly of India,” producing risky films, wearing black with everything. Hey, I love Brad and think our world is a better place because of him, but he is defined by the women he is with.
So Paltrow copies his hairstyle…and he is accused of copying her
Nevermind
Did Paltrow discuss who she is dating now?
Did she discuss who she was dating when she was living with Chris?
Probably not
Well-said…i completely agree.
Is it possible for us to choose no-one in this triangle.I find Angelina’s acting boring and Jenifer is tolerable in a few funny roles.But plz dont push either down our throats as the second coming.I would much prefer J.K.Simmons, Jon Hamm ,Amy Poehler or Tina Fey…all relatable and fine actors which make u want to watch whatever they are in.
Also, i didnt like the girl who is in Jane the virgin’s speech…the moment she started talking…i cringed.
Phewwww…i just am more appreciative of actors who make their work as in acting or directing speak for themselves.That’s why i like Ben Affleck…is he a good dude..naah…can he entertain…hell yes!
@ Solace
I felt guilty but I had the same reaction that you did. I hated her voice and I hated her speech and I am all for diversity in media…I’ve never watched her show but the minute she started talking I was not into it…
I’ve been saying this for years. I honestly don’t think his spotlight would be anywhere near as strong without Jolie by his side. She’s really the more fascinating part of the pair.
I think that what she said about Ben was true. At the time he was into strip clubs, gambling, and I think drinking. I don’t know why people always claim that somebody is the love of somebody’s life. If Brad is in love with Gwen, wouldn’t he have tried to get back together with her or at least talk about her every once in a while. I don’t think he mentioned her name since they broke up.
I remember someone posted that when he did the film commentary for Seven, he said nothing about Goop, at all. And she played his wife. Didn’t even talk about the performance. I think they said this was on 2000, 2001–sometime after he married Jennifer Aniston. But I’ve always kinda believed the cheating rumors about him and her. I’m sorry, Goop is harmless 99% of the time, but she is stuck up her own ass. She was the It Girl when she and Brad were together–I totally believe that she thought she was all that and a bag of chips, and it went to her head (to this day).
It was a pretty big deal when they broke up – he had talked about how excited he was to get married and settle down, and then out of the blue they were done and he pretty much wouldn’t even talk about it. That was part of why his pairing with Aniston was such a big deal… he’d seemed so burned by Paltrow and he finally got to get married and settle down.
I think Brad was way into Gwyneth and it says a lot that he can’t even talk about her to this day. Not saying she’s the love of his life, but she probably comes close to being very significant.
I think he loved her very much, probably felt that she was his soulmate. Which is why it hurt him when she cheated, and took him a while to forgive/get over her.
However, I think his love for Angelina trumps that 100%. He jumped into that relationship full speed, adopting and having kids within a year, and withstanding any backlash from the media and his ex-wife’s fans. It was like he didn’t give too F**Ks about the consequences as long as he was with her. The fact that they’re going strong 10+ years is proof of that.
I’m sure I’ve posted this story before, but a friend of mine was in a hotel bar with her husband during TIFF, shortly after Pitt and Paltrow had split up, and in walked Pitt. He sat down and spent about an hour chatting with them over drinks, and my friend said he was very clearly devastated by the split with GP. He didn’t divulge super personal information or anything, but he was very sad and seemed to find some catharsis in talking with another couple, probably because they were so “normal”!
When I was 19, I dated a man who was six years older than me. I was head-over-heels infatuatedly in love with him, but at the beginning of our relationship, he wasn’t quite as … enthusiastic. As time passed, however, he got more and more serious — but I drifted away, because I was young and silly, and didn’t appreciate that relationships grow and change, sometimes for the better. I broke up with him after two years. In retrospect, I realize what an idiot I was, because I think he absolutely adored me, and he became a really lovely man. I get the impression Gwyneth’s experience with Pitt was probably pretty similar.
Ah, 90’s fashion. that is all.
Yes. But the haircuts were pretty awesome.
I’ll agree to that!
I know. I saw the pics and wondered ‘is it bad that I still like Winona’s outfit and wear similar ensembles today still?’ chucks, similar skirt, tank top. lol.
Also, I love the short hair cuts and have been wanting to get one again after years of longer hair.
I didn’t realize that I may still be reppin’ the 90’s lol. As an 80’s child, I have to say, at least the 90’s are bearable to look at. 80’s is costume party territory mostly-and yet they keep trying to make it come back. no….stay away….
Brad was probably to good for her. lol
Agreed, and a zillion times prettier too.
There was a rumor that she cheated on Brad with Viggo Mortensen. It sounds like she realizes that people know an she tries to justify her actions with all the young and reckless talk. Young and hot Brad was too good for me so I purposely ruined it by sleeping with young and hotter Viggo Mortensen – just like 22-year olds usually do.
Oh, Viggo back then was Viggo, Viggo HOT!!
I think GP slept with Weistein. That’s how she got to be his muse for miramax.
She sounded very much like a typical 22 year old making typical 22 year old mistakes in relationships, only with some of the hottest celebs in the world at the time.
Sorry to break any ice sexy dreams with. Viggo, but I heard that she actually cheated with the actor from 4?weddings and a funeral, the one that was also in the Mummy and some others. He is funny, but can’t remember his name.
I think she was doing movies in the UK when it happened.
John Hannah.
Though the rumour was Ben Affleck AND Viggo Mortesen as well.
The fact that she went on to date Ben squished the cheating rumour.
Either way, it broke up her relationship with Brad.
I remember this pap photo of them after the break up, they are in the back seat of a car, he’s trying to shield her and she is weeping copiously. It broke my heart for her.
I love Judy drench, but she got an Oscar for that?!? I thought goop was adorable and luminous in that role…but cate was adorable, frightened, powerful, joyful, broken hearted…the performance had so much more.
This!!!!
She got an Oscar for that because she should have won for Mrs. Brown, but Helen Hunt got it instead for As Good As It Gets
Bette, very true. As Good As It Gets has not aged well. I watched it a few months ago and was thinking “man, this swept Best Actor and Actress?”
This was a great interview because was she game and surprisingly had the good sense to know that people do want to know about the past. She didn’t bristle at the questions, which was a nice change.
I did think it was hilarious that she never mentioned Brad’s current wife. Angelina was the elephant in the room. And it was like Jennifer Aniston never existed!
I’ve always gotten the impression that Gwyneth saw “that TV girl” as a rebound. In hindsight, I think she was probably right. I think Gwyneth was the love of his life until he met Angelina.
Ditto on Jen being the rebound. But I’m always sort of wistful that goop did not marry braaad… just imagine the paltrow-pitts with their 2/3 blonde children, organic diets, pseudo-artistic productions, red carpets and interviews. For all the hype Brangelina got, we have been cheated out of a lot of good copy here…
Yes, the interview is replete with sins of omission. She’s still a mean girl; it’s just passive aggression. I’m afraid her head is still up in there where the sun don’t shine…
she’s obsessed with pitt, she never shuts up about him.
I find her super annoying but what else can she say? No comment? She’s on howard Stern, what else could he ask her about that is of any interest? Do his listeners care about her diet and exercise? Parenting? He handled her with kid gloves though.
He handles all Hollywood people like that these days. He is very conscious of how Hollywood perceives him. It’s mostly a snooze fest of a** kissing.
I know this is an incredibly unpopular stance but I began to like her MORE after this interview. She was pretty honest about divorce, exes….especially when so many peoples’ publicists block subjects that are controversial (read: interesting). I don’t blame her for not bringing up Angelina…what would she say? Why start that? They’re obviously not friends.
Not unpopular at all. I feel the same. Gwinnie is not the smartest person, she says a lot of thing she shouldn’t. But she is not a bad person, she is not unkind or angry. She always takes the high road and that is something many other people still need to learn.
I agree.
There was no reason to bring up Angie unless asked. She only brought up Jennifer Garner because they are casual friends because they are neighbors now and Ben is still her friend. Ben has said he has stays in contact with Gwynneth and J-LO, to drop them lines to congratulate them on things, etc.
When asked, se said she and Brad are friendly when they run into each other, but that they don’t stay in contact. If Howard had gone further, I’m sure she would have said they seem like a lovely family, etc. He didn’t. They moved on to something else. She said once she has met Jennifer Aniston and she is really nice. I don’t think Gwynneth has any beef with anyone Brad dated and/or married and is happy for him. Their lives together were long ago when young, and I highly doubt has any jealousy with any of his women after her. Brad’s life on the road with the kids is far different from G’s with her kids in one place. They are two different people compared to when they were in their early 20s and she has fond memories of that time, but nothing more. What she said about Brad, which was very nice, solidified for me that he and Angie probably really do have a great marriage/relationship because he is a really good person. I couldn’t live the lifestyle like them moving every three four months, a huge entourage to help do that, with six kids but they have worked out a life that works for them and their careers and family. So more power to them.
Yeah Goop does seem to be cool with exes/doesn’t ever seem jealous. Not sure why she would even need to bring up Angelina or Jennifer A….not like she has a relationship with them.
@VG
I think Paltrow and Aniston do hang out a bit. They have each mentioned it a few times.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/jennifer-aniston-gwyneth-paltrow-share-4175292
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/gwyneth-paltrow-attends-jennifer-anistons-holiday-party-brad-pitts-exes-unite-picture-2013912
I know, she’s grown on me. She’s very professional. And you have to love her because she’s great for gossip. And I mean great. And she’s totally aware of everything she says. Her answers are pure gold and even when she doesn’t answer, truth is, the answer is still there, she’s giving it to you with her smug laughter or whatever. GOOP the best troll ever
Yeah I agree. You can tell she’s learned when to keep quiet.
I always believed she is not *really* that stuck-up or awful as people make her out to be; she’s just not very diplomatic.
He asks her: “So you didn’t do any advertisements before you started acting heh? Why is that?”
She says: “… Well I’ve done some NOW..”
=> If she had responded with “I didn’t want to brand myself like that”, the reactions would be: Ahhh she’s so stuck up, feels too good for advertising!!
(While it’s actually a smart move in the biz to wait for more significant contracts; same way Doutzen approached her career if you read into that).
So yeah, he didn’t trick her there. She’s learning.
They are ALL talking about their exs these days, whether they are alive or dead (Cake, JLo) these days. Let them go women, live in present. Brad is “too good” for this one and Cake woman says “Brad was all wrong for me”!! GAWD, get over him already. He is taken, most probably forever!
Calm the hell down and carry on!
I agree. It’s pretty sad that these women are so stuck in the past.
Why let failed relationships define you? Look towards future
happiness. But I guess constantly talking about old boyfriends humanizes Gwyneth at a time when her career is less than stellar and she appears to be better known as a punchline than an actress.
“calm the hell down”?? Who’s not calm? Angelina wrote the intro to BBT’s book and has spoken about him before. Why is this a problem?
Wow she’s so pretty in the retro photos! I’m young so I don’t remember what she used to look like… I feel like she would look so much better if she stopped with the cleanses and flat ironing and smoking.
I listened to the whole interview yesterday. I came away liking Gwyn again. Howard was the one asking the questions, guiding the interview on what he was interested in, even the movie business from when she was young. She was relaxed, chill, self-deprecating, and I can’t believe I’m saying this. I liked her interview and her. She never shied away from one thing he asked, but often he moved on quickly. She did rave about Brad as someone who is basically a really good person. From what she said, you can jut tell Brad is what he seems, a stand-up guy. Howard just kept saying how could you dump Brad Pitt, so gorgeous, and she laughed and said she never said she dumped him. She was only 22 at the time and too immature to be getting married.
The conscious uncoupling thing was interesting. She laughed about the reaction and admitted she did it wrong, that she should have explained what they were trying to follow as a family, not her phrase. She said it isn’t her prhase and was a philosophy someone told her about by a psychologist or someone, and she said she and Chris really tried to implement that for the children’s sake and that it isn’t always easy. She went into detail and I thought she made a lot of sense about divorce and children and what they are working towards and that some days that isn’t easy.
She talked about her father. Okay. I cried. I’ve lost my father and mother. She said at the time she was so wracked with grief her body was in spasms and couldn’t handle the grief. I understood it so vividly, the way your body cannot even handle the grief and I didn’t think I could survive it either. I never expected to lose my parent or parents until I was older and felt so alone. Howard told her the father/daughter relationship i is special and she was lucky to have a great relationship with her father, many people don’t. She said her father was the love of her life. I understood what she’s saying. He gave her unconditional love, something no man has yet. She said someone told her some people have fathers and others have daddies, and that that’s true, and hers was her daddy. It was moving but she was never sappy.
I thought her hippy school she went to up to the age of 11 was hysterical.
Anyway, Howard asked the questions and she always was chatty and answered and he often would cut into something else or go into another tangent, but she never avoided anything. She talked about marrying Chris, a rockstar when he was only 25, and that being married to someone on the road isn’t easy especially when you have young kids.
She spoke glowingly about Chris and said any woman he brought into the children’s life she would trust him that she’s a good person for the children. Howard did mention J-Law in there before that trying to get a rise, and she said, who says I don’t like J-Law. She didn’t admit they were dating as that’s his business, but she didn’t seem to have a problem.
You can take quotes and passages of the interview and rag on her, but from me listening, not the printed word, I found her kind of delightful again. She adores Robert Downey, Jr., and I loved a lot of her comments about him. I had no idea he ad libbed most of the first Iron Man.
And after all that..she’s still not the least bit interesting.
I agree with everythng no you said. She seemed really open and sincere and self deprecating.
I agree with everything you said. She seemed really open and sincere and self deprecating. When she started off by joking about how ‘denial’ was an effective way for her to handle the criticism I knew that the interview was going to be a good one.
It’s interesting though how people are so adamant about their hate for her that they hear completely different things while listening to the same interview.
Gwinnie is silly. But she seems like a good person under all these layers of silliness. She says a lot og things that make me go wtf?
But she is not bitter or angry or unkind, just out of touch. In short, she is OK.
I never before noticed, but you can see in the Young-Brad with Young-Gwyneth pic that they have the same exact jawline.
I have no idea why I’m bothering to post this.
O God. I am profoundly superficial.
They both look so good in that first picture. You kind of forget what people looked like 20 years ago. Both of them were so beautiful.
True. I never think either of them is very good looking, but you’re right. Both were astonishingly beautiful then.
Whoever wrote this just sounds like such a complainer. Like yeah she doesn’t deserve half of what she has but too little too late. To even remember who she was up against for an Oscar how many years ago is a little sad. And it didn’t sound like she was throwing shade whatsoever at JG-over analyzing nothing
I have a soft spot for her because of sliding doors, one of my favorite movies ever. Love her hair from that era, it’s much more becoming than what’s going on now.
I loved Sliding Doors also. I loved her in Duets that her father directed. I loved her in that thriller with Michael Douglas. I thought she was so beautiful in that. There was another movie she did, Bounce, with Ben Affleck that I also liked. I liked her in her smaller movies that he seemed to enjoy doing.
I saw Bounce the other day and she was so beautiful in that movie. Really really stunning. I think she would look better with brown hair.
What is it about Brad that his exes can not stop talking about him? It’s good Angelina saw the man and not ” Brad Pitt” because who is crying now about BRAD, BRAD.
Please. I’m still mad that Cate Blanchett didn’t win that year! I was pissed then and I’m still pissed about it now. She’s delusional if she thinks all people believe she deserved the award. It was a crappy role in an even crappier movie. That was a classic case of Hollywood nepotism. Other than that idiotic statement the rest of the interview was great. Howard always manages to get interesting responses from people. I still love his rapport with Mia Farrow. Such a weird combo.
Everyone hates on her so much and yes, she’s a bit too pretentious but I really can’t find it in me to dislike her. She’s so obviously trolling at this point and she finds it hysterical and I do too. I also don’t thinks she’s such a shit actress – Country Strong is seriously one of my (shameful) favorite movies. I think she deserved the Oscar for SIL because like someone said above ^ she brought a lightness to it. I mean, she’s full of herself no doubt but she’s so harmless.
I thought it was a great interview. She was very comfortable with Howard, you can tell. I really can’t dislike her.
Very well prepped by her publicist on her “Let’s Change the Gwynnie Narrative” tour. She only came off as out of touch and pretentious maybe a half dozen times and then lied about the derivation of “Apple,” her use of “conscious uncoupling,” and the Wino/Shakespeare in Love incident (among other things, no doubt).
Amazing how the PR seems to be working …
This was a well PR move. All interviews are prepped. The guests are notified in advance and at same time the interviewer are told what NOT to ask.
From all this roller coaster of relationships what about a conscious coupling of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Garner in a movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enough said. 🙂
She’s so easy to dislike. She’s clueless about how offensive some find her classcism. She should go for villain roles.
lol @ the pic of them looking like twinsies.
I’d like to give her the benefit of the doubt, and not say anything about her personally other than she is really a boring celebrity. Which is fine, but she seems to think she’s not boring–that we might be interested in what she’s saying and how she’s living.
I like how the writer (of this) had a hard time listening to the HS interview. Telling.
I adored Brad and Goop together. At the time, they seemed so well suited. I was sad when they broke up.
Also, interviewers love to ask Brad’s exes about him. I remember Robin Givens talking on Oprah about the time she was in bed, all snuggled up with him, when Mike Tyson came pounding on the door looking for her. Nobody has a bad word to say about him. Angelina is one lucky girl.
‘It’s taken me till 40 to get my head out of my ass’
Nope, it’s still firmly wedged up there. Firmly.
Sometimes, I forget how ridiculously beautiful Pitt was in his younger years. His forties hit him like a brick wall.
The interview was hilariously narcissistic, which is exactly what you’d expect from her. I have to give her props for promoting the shit out of Mortedecai, though. Similar to JLaw with Serena, do the men get a free pass from having to eat it with less than impressive film performances?
He used to be so pretty.
Pitt was pretty! Unfortunately he’s aged badly. She’s still pretty to me and I find her amusing.
I don’t think he’s aged badly necessarily, but I think having kids is taking its toll. I wonder if he’d look better if he’d put together better outfits though.
I think she’s always been kind of boring looking, but I guess she had nicer skin when she was younger (as we all did). I think Winona Ryder and others (i.e the female cast of Twin Peaks?) were prettier. She has height and a thin frame going for her. If she were shorter, I wonder if people would notice her face (although I one height and thinness counts as part of the beauty package. I just don’t think it’s enough that she ever lives up to her PR hype of being one of the most beautiful women in the world).
Her mom is prettier than she is.
I dont think anyone should be considered one of the most beautiful since looks are subjective. I just don’t find Brad Pitt attractive but that’s not to say someone else who finds him otherwise is wrong.
Listening to that interview made me remember the Gwyneth I used to be a fan of and all the great small movies I loved her in.
If no one has ever seen Duets, rent it. It’s such an offbeat, quirky little movie and great music also. It’s not a great movie, but it was good. I remember buying the soundtrack. Her father directed her in it, and it must be a sweet memory for her. It’s the first time I had ever heard of or seen Paul Giamatti in a movie and fell in love with him as an actor. He stole the movie and actually made the movie.
I couldn’t believe how good Gwyneth’s voice was. Here she is in the movie singing with Huey Lewis, who had a big part in the movie, also. And Scott Speedman was in the movie.
Gwyneth and Huey Lewis singing Crusin’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_HaoZ73wWg
Love that top photo, they could be brother and sister.
I was so eager to listen to this interview, thought she’d be more likable. Goop was just same old goop.
This woman likes to flatter herself so yeah, it was annoying. I thought Howard turned into Ellen for a second. Boring and Self-satisfying as always. (And Goop, your Oscar? please, it’s not all yours)
I never thought Brad Pitt was the insanely good-looking man everyone else thought he was (he’s handsome, sure, but not in a particularly unusual way) but I did forget how much better he looked back then. I just looked through some older pictures and it’s amazing how quickly he went from being fresh-faced to fairly haggard. It’s like 20 years of aging hit him all at once within the span of about 18 months.
Goopy is silly and pretentious to a fault, but she really doesn’t seem like a bad person, and this interview solidified that. She came across as pretty nice imo. As for the exes, I do think Brad really thought she was ‘the one’ (whatever that means) at the time. He was obviously miserable after their break up. That doesn’t take away anything from his love for Angelina though, who he obviously completely adores, and I think she feels the same about him. Its been pretty well documented by now that Brad is a really nice guy, but I wouldn’t say he was ‘too good’ for her exactly. I think he has always been very family oriented and wanting lots of kids and Goop just wasn’t ready for that at all. Affleck, she’s said as much about him before, I believe her. And I think its kind of cute that theyre still friendly.
I think Gwyneth is nice to people “at her level.” But she does seem capable of looking down at people whom she might deem inferior. I don’t think she mixes in circles “below her” so this is probably something I can’t prove, but when she made the comment about she can’t pretend to know what it’s like to make 25 000 dollars a year, I thought that perhaps she could have the potential to stick her nose down at people who aren’t as rich as her.
I think the fawning over Garner is shade toward Jolie. Why go on and on about how wonderful Garner is and then say nothing about Jolie? Shade!
Yep, Angie is the elephant in the room.
She knows Garner, is neighbors, has hung out with her, so brought her up more because she was trying to follow up with after saying he had been in the wrong place for a relationship back then and the joke Howard brought up about strippers, that she said but he was settled down now and Garner is lovely, is a neighbor and they’ve even had lunch together.
On WWHL last night, Andy asked G who she would most like to be stuck in an elevator with Jennifer Garner or Angelina Jolie. She said that was a hard one. She said either one. She said she knows Jennifer better but has met Angelina and she is nice but doesn’t really know her that well. So either one was her answer. Andy said, well, since you don’t know Angie that well, maybe you should pick her and that way you will get to know her. And she said, there you go. I pick Angelina.
Her comment about Jen Garner means that Paltrow listened to the publicist who told her to say something nice about another woman. That was totally calculated.
Yes, no doubt. Maybe it was “say something nice about another woman — but NOT one of your rich, mean girl friends.”
Also, subjecting oneself to Howard Stern is a dead giveaway that desperate measures are being taken to build relatability with the unwashed masses.