I used to think that Gwyneth Paltrow would never deign to appear on a television show. Surely she would find the experience too peasanty, right? But then she kept appearing on Glee, mostly because she was trying to make her singing career happen, and partly because she’s been banging one of the Glee producers for a while. As the years have gone by, I tend to believe that Gwyneth really isn’t getting the kind of film offers she believes are her due (coughMortdecaicough), so why not simply look for more television work? Would that help or hurt Gwyneth’s brand these days? She is trying to shill more to the commoners, after all. Fine, she’ll do TV! But only if it’s HBO! And that’s just what Lena Dunham was hoping for.
Kerry Washington isn’t the only mega-star Lena Dunham wants to see on Girls. She also wouldn’t mind adding Gwyneth Paltrow to her long list of celeb guest stars.
“We would love it,” Dunham told me at the Girls PaleyFest panel.
“Fingers crossed,” her producing partner Jenni Konner added.
Dunham said, “We’d be very grateful.”
She and Konner recently had an Instagram lovefest with the Oscar winner. Dunham marked her first “foodgram” when she posted a photo of turkey chili that Konner had made from a recipe featured in Paltrow’s cookbook, It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great.
“Fact: @campsucks [Konner] makes a mean turkey chili care of @gwynethpaltrow’s It’s All Good,” she wrote. “This is probably the only foodgram I’ll ever do- I just felt so loved. Another fact- as I took home my doggie bag Jenni joyfully yelled “it’s protein packed!”
Dunham told me, “Jenny made me that chili and I took it back to the hotel where I was staying. I had room service heat it up for me and then I just couldn’t shut up about the chili!”
Gwyneth would probably fit into the Girls world pretty well. I mean, that’s her world. Second-generation Hollywood/New York upper-crust/rich white girl/expensive education/born on third base and thinks she hit a triple. Would Gwyneth deign to guest-star on it? Probably.
Speaking of Gwyneth’s upper-crust world, she posted this for International Women’s Day on Sunday. I know this is just a collection of her previous Instagrams, but surely she’s deigned to take a photograph of a rare friend who happens to also be a woman of color? This collection is very white, that’s all I’m saying.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Nicole Richie is a woman of color, right?
Well, she’s adopted by Richie and I think she’s 100% Mexican…
She always looks orange to me.
(joke! Nobody freak out)
Yes, she is. Good point.
Yes, as is Maya Rudolph.
She’s half African american. LOL. Not Mexican.
She has been friends with Maja Rudolph since her school days.
I love how Goop has such a condescending “aren’t you sweet?” face in all of her pictures. It makes it really hardto feel like she is ever genuine. As for the Girls role, who knows. I don’t watch the show so I have no dog in this fight.
Yea. She would do it. And then she would praise herself for it. This is Goop.
The Stairway to Boring
On that ugly show she’ll come across as beautiful as Miss Universe, even with her fried hair, horrible complexion and flat butt.
Goop on Girls? The pretentiousness of it all might cause them both to implode.
Together they’ll be like antimatter. They’ll hopefully get sucked in a black hole.
one can only dream
Praying for this to happen.
I bet Goop does do it because then Lena can become to her what Jonah Hill is to Bradley Pitt. Goop on the Today Show: “When Lena so graciously asked me to star on Girls, I knew I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. We have had so much fun. I have taught Lena so much about moisturizers, clean eating, and proper exercise. This is what I hope Lena has gained from our friendship, a stronger mental, spiritual, and physical muscle.”
They both need the press attention. This will happen.
I think she would be a great addition to the show!! She should be Marnie’s Aunt or something like that. Or maybe another teacher at Hannah’s school. I think this season of GIRLS is the best yet!
Given how pretentious Marnie is she would be perfect as her aunt. I would love to see that…..
I think Goop would kill to have a role in a show like Mad Men…
or Homeland
Another reason to avoid this show. The level of out of touch here is astounding. They aren’t even trying to be with it.
I love your gravitar and handle. Great show cancelled too soon.
Lake Bell is too good for Goop! That’s all I’ve got.
I don’t believe so. Bell comes from serious family money that will make Goop’s look like pennies. They are two sides of the same coin but Bell’s family just has deeper pockets.
Lake Bell has good backing and right connections. Her talent is overrated. Early on there was a scandal that seemed to get dealt with quickly (payoff?) of a screen play she dind’t write, but took credit for. Since then she’s gotten a side eye from me. Though that aside her acting and humor isn’t something that stands out like Tina or Amy.
Her skin is terrible!!
Major bronze makeup fail in the top photos. I want to take a brillo pad and soap to her face.
Puzzled about the stairway photo being called ‘white’. Nicole Richie is Hispanic, and a couple of the other girls look exotic as well.
“the collection is very white”? so? that’s a really stupid thing to say.
they can just change the name of the show to team nepotism