Here are some photos of Gwyneth Paltrow at Variety’s Power of Women Luncheon on Friday. Given the event, is it weird and un-feminist that my first thought was “what’s going on with Goop’s face?” Is this Botox? She seems suspiciously… smooth. Gwyneth’s white dress was from Brandon Maxwell’s Spring 2016 collection. I like it, surprisingly. It genuinely looks good on her. Gwyneth apparently came to this event with “official” boyfriend, Brad Falchuk, but they didn’t walk the carpet together.
On the carpet, Gwyneth chatted with People Magazine about her daughter, Apple, who is now 11 years old. Apparently, Apple is a big Taylor Swift fan, which Goop approves of. Gwyneth told People: “She loves Taylor Swift, and for me, that’s such a great sign. Taylor is a girl who’s incredibly talented. She writes her own music. She’s not naked on the red carpet. She’s an incredibly astute businesswoman, so with role models like that, [Apple] can’t go wrong.” Gwyneth also believes that Apple’s generation will change the world: “I really think that that generation is going to do something very special. Those girls, they are so in their power. They are absolutely shameless in terms of their femininity, and I think we’re on the verge of something really exciting.” I don’t get how someone can be “shameless” about their femininity?
Then, during her speech at the luncheon/forum, Gwyneth said more words about sexism and Hollywood. Some highlights:
“Ambition” used to be a bad word: “When I was a young women in Hollywood, if you were a woman focused on building your career, you were labeled ambitious, and that was a bad word. So, I was decidedly not, and developed a ‘Oh, how could this happen to me?’ approach.”
She was always too smart for Hollywood: “I was told to temper my use of SAT words in interviews because it made me ‘unlikeable’.”
The change in Hollywood: She said we’re “on the verge of creating a new archetype,” where it’s possible for a woman to be “naturing, maternal, sexual…Power of women rings a bit differently. Fear of how we are perceived seems to be waning and things are being brought to the life. We are empowering each other. We are banding together to support each other. Yes, we suffer some slings and arrows along the way, not me obviously. I feel those slings and arrows fortify us.”
[From Vanity Fair & Variety]
While I think Gwyneth is probably smarter or at least of average intelligence compared to her contemporaries in Hollywood, she’s never struck me some brilliant woman purposefully hiding away her intelligence lest she intimidate too many people. The sheer fact that she honestly believed “ambition” was a dirty word for women in Hollywood proves that her SAT-prep work was an uphill battle.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
It’s not her language that’s off putting. It’s her general attitude and snobby behavior.
^^ Yep and her pedantic toot tooting to the masses about how is simply divine to steam your Vagine and how the best cheese is from this little Shop in Florence where she just loves to call speak to the Owner in Italian and send for some fresh cheese, and how if she can do it so could you!
I tend to prefer my vagine steamed, it brings out the flavour. Wait what.
Embertine, I just spit out my tea. Thanks for the laugh.
Ahhh no. She might speak a fluent spanish but in no way she speaks italian.
QQ if you tell me which shops she goes to while in Florence, I’ll go there myself tomorrow and have a few words with the owner! 😀
embertine, LOL!
All us plebians can understand all her “SAT words”; it’s just how uses them to patronize the rest of us.
She has never come across as highly intelligent to me. I can tell she considers herself to be an intellectual, but she seems more insecure than anything else.
Oh okay – tell us your SAT scores!
Obviously they weren’t that high because her usage of the English language is poor, articulation and oral presentation is horrendous and her attitude is worse. Smart she is not.
Not sure how she knows what SAT words are since she never went to college and most likely never took the test.
Exactly aims,
She and Manselle should be voted for the mug, sorry, I mean smug, of the century award.
Hmmm, she’s never struck me as especially sesquipedalian personally. 😉
I’m thinking those were some old words, because I haven’t ever heard anything intellectually stimulating from her – nothing that would even hint that she has a broad vocabulary. Just another subtle brag on her part trying to force a perception of herself on us that’s not reality. If she were truly intellectual, she would stop praising herself. Truly intellegent people reflect on themselves and question their own motives. She does not. She just continues to stumble around blathering about people who think she’s awesome, hot, and now super smart. Pfffft….
Well, you know that SHE believes that she is intelligent and articulate; I have yet to read quotes or interviews that exhibit any evidence of this…..
I love a bit of blather, especially on toast.
Thanks for the new word!
But is it a SAT word? Would Gwynnie approve? Or am I flaunting my plebian origins?
I see what you did there, embertine. 😉
Is it the SAT words or is it ALL of her words, as in the constructed sentences that fall out of her mouth on a regular basis that support an elitist mentality that makes her unlikeable?
Oy. Another version of humble bragging: being ‘advised’ by unnamed sources to tamp down her incredibly intimidating vocab & intellect. But she doesn’t have to say it herself directly, merely infer… because she’s referencing someone else who said it for her.
Memo to UES Spence Brat valiantly misusing SAT words while adroitly avoiding comprehension and application in any meaningful adventure, despite dumb west coast Hollywood opposition: the only thing I’d care for you to curate is my collection of idiotic quotes by celebrities.
At that, I think you’d prove a star – with impeccable epicurean taste for substance weighing less than air, and a wealth of vapid vocabulary to describe and translate the process – ad nauseam, for a profit.
It MIGHT help her case of passing as a sesquipedalian if she actually ever took an SAT test, but it’s well documented that a call from Mummy&Daddy’s family friend Michael Douglas got her into USC bc her grades were not good…. and for ONE semester before she dropped out.
And it’s also documented that she wasn’t an academic wonder at Spence. Just, again, she was a girl with connections, connections, connections.
I don’t know why she’s trying this front. Just listen to her speak off the cuff, it’s clear she doesn’t have this foundation of being well studied from an academic standpoint. She still speaks like some new age valley girl. And IMHO, for celebrities that are “educated”, she’s not anywhere in league with Natalie Portman or Jodie Foster or even young Emma Watson. You just know it. Gwyneth didn’t do the academic work and to me, it’s pretty obvious when she speaks. Just because one knows what “pulchritude” means (or whatever fancy word for beauty) and can use it in a sentence a couple of times does not qualify one as an intellectual, I’m afraid. You’re still the person that thinks emotions can change water and that steaming a vagina makes sense.
Rebrand attempt at collecting “Brainy” tag: FAIL
This. If you are so smart with vocabulary then university should be a breeze. It is actually not hard to complete an undergrad degree if you are any good at school. If it is hard and you need to drop out, then your use of SAT words is to overcompensate for the fact that you aren’t as smart as you think you are.
Listen to her speak and then compare it to when Amal Clooney speaks. You will hear the difference right away. Even if Amal is probably stunt barristering at this point, she still has a strong foundation that Gwynnie clearly lacks.
Holy Botox Batman.
She’s such a ‘shining’ star!
Skin so shiny, I can hardly see her face and eyes because of the glare. And hair so tired, yellow and limp, she really needs a new, more flattering look.
She’s terribly shiny, and at first, I thought it was the light, but I think you’re right, mia girl.
Australian here, so please may I ask what SAT words are? I’m thinking you’re referring to a Univerdity word list? Are they words we should all know…and love? I love words.
I’m not sure myself, and I’m from the USA. I think it’s pre-college testing.
SAT = Scholastic Aptitude Test. Expensive, culturally biased, poorly predictive standardized exam of verbal and math skills taken by fourth-year high school students in the USA as part of the college (university) admissions process.
Boon to the testing and test-tutoring industry, though. Was supposedly meant to “even the playing field” for admissions.
Vocabulary is important though, and “SAT words” can mean fancy words of three syllables and up. If you know your big words and how to use them, you can do a lot better on the verbal portion of the test.
Gwyneth should probably move up to GRE words, that might help more.
GRE = Graduate Record Exam. Equivalent for graduate school. Verbal/math plus often a special subject exam.
Who are these people: Thsnks for the prompt reply! I’d started searching for some information, and came back here to check. What you describe sounds suspiciously like our NAPLAN – the compulsory national assessments for literacy and numeracy. Children sit these in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. There is much controversy surrounding these tests, especially since the Federal government decided to use the results to rank schools. Many schools spend weeks “coaching” the students in order to achieve the best results. So many parents pay big money for outside tutoring for the same reason.
The tests are conducted in a particular format, with many multiple-choice questions. On of my colleagues had a pupil who could barely write his first name, and could only memorise words, as opposed to “reading” them – survival skills that we see in many children and adults with learning needs, neglect, abuse etc. (This poor boy was behind the right-ball in everything…) He was considered illiterate. As a special-needs pupil, he was permitted to have a reader for part of the test, but obviously, not for the Reading component of these tests. Because so many questions are multiple-choice, children are encouraged to not leave any bubbles blank. (Bubbles are coloured-in, which is how computers mark the papers.) After being given this instruction, he really took it to heart. The test was set for 1 hour, but he’d “completed” it in 20 minutes. We kept encouraging him to keep checking his answers and to ensure there were no blank bubbles. At one point we told him we’d also check to make sure he hadn’t missed any questions. There were, from memory, three or four questions requiring properly-written answers. For these, we asked the questions and scribed for him, but his answers made no sense, since, for the most part, he did not understand the entire test, which was not the easiest of tests anyway.
Months went by before the results came in. This boy had scored in Band 4 – the second-highest ranking, simply because he’d guessed correctly on almost all of the multiple-choice questions. He had no clue about what he was being asked because he was unable to read the questions, much less write full, complex sentences in response, but he was a ninja at bubble-colouring. Yet, according to the government ranking, he was considered to be almost at the top of the tree. It’s for the reasons you also describe, WATP, and just one example I’ve given, that lots of teachers and parents would like to see an end to these tests.
Again, thanks for your info. I love coming on here, but now, I’m off to read some SAT word lists…
I suspect your NAPLAN is also a bit more like the US’ ‘teach to the test,’ No Child Left Behind plan here. (A disaster for both teachers and students, and a massive, tragic, epic fail of education for anyone concerned.)
@zzz. The NAPLAN is exactly like the odious NCLB, another destructive legacy of the GWB administration.
WIth a big side of cheek filler too.
Wait a minute , she’s at a female empowerment luncheon and is throwing shade at women that don’t dress on the red carpet as she see’s fit? She always brings the judgement
I caught that too! It’s all about a certain aspirational brand of feminism, darling, don’t be so GAUCHE.
Lean-in/power feminism at its worst. And most Botox-y.
She’s talking about role models for her pre-teen! This has nothing to do with anyone being a bad person for wearing revealing clothing, I think it’s about keeping your kids kids for as long as possible.
she reminds me of JA’s Mrs Elton….
Yes! I just can’t stand her. I like that she is very articulate but she just can’t stop herself from being a snobby judgy a**hole.
And didn’t her BFF Beyonce appear in one of those ‘almost nude’ mesh dresses at the last Met red carpet?
She barely graduated Spence and only got into college because Michael Douglas wrote a letter of reference.
Nice try GOOP.
Yep, she is not the brightest, we say, dump people are happy people, bc they don’t understand anything. And she is so full of herself, maybe that fill her emptieness….
Yeah, she never managed to graduate, did she?
I already posted on this link today comparing her attitude to other truly intelligent and educated actresses like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman (who have top notch educations yet you never hear them humble-brag about it), but I never realized Gwyneth didn’t even finish college and dropped out after one semester. Wow, that makes her comment about having to remove SAT words from her vocabulary even worse…..ugh Goop. Just stop.
Those cheeks. Yikes!!
I’m sure she uses organic, free range filler products sourced from the Himalayas…
“While I think Gwyneth is probably smarter or at least of average intelligence compared to her contemporaries in Hollywood,”
who are her contemporaries in Hollywood that you believe she smarter then?
Goop don’t strikes me as smart just average intelligence, she seem more like the type to look up big words in the dictionary to make her self seem smarter then she is.
How about ‘Word of the Day’ toilet paper?
Love this.
But must be made from silk imported from Japan and written with home-made crayons from organic bees wax. I was going to just say made from hemp, but I would probably smoke that rather than waste it whiping my butt.
As I was looking at the drab flat hair and the fug white outfit with nude shoes I realized that at this point nothing she would ever say would elicit more than a massive eye roll from me. She truly thinks she is oh so smart… Women are “naturing”? Really? And “power of women rings a bit differently”? What the heck does that even mean? She strings words together (SAT level, darling, of course…) and thinks that they actually make sense. The slings and arrows are there for everybody but not her? I just can’t with her. Really can’t.
I used to be so envious of her hair! Who knew smug makes your hair look brassy and fried?
“I realized that at this point nothing she would ever say would elicit more than a massive eye roll from me”
I’m with you on this. She’s reached that point for the majority of us, I think. She’s just too much.
@Tiffany you are exactly right & she dropped out of UCSB after a semester. She had stated she learned all she needed at Spence!
She was probably misusing words all over the place and throwing off employers. She strikes me as someone who would “utilize” all over the place.
Unlike me… I just like reusing the phrase “all over the place” all over the place.
haha, Nicole!
Didn’t she drop out of college after one term because she couldn’t cut it? She’s right about Taylor Swift being a good role model for a pre-teen, though. I’d be suspicious of an adult who was rockin’ out to Swift’s music, but there should be properly clothed musicians for pre-teens to listen to.
Doh, misplaced post. Pls disregard.
Her College Board scores were so low, Michael Douglas had to pull strings to get her into college.
And I remember from her interviews in the late 90s/early00s that her literature knowledge basically consisted of what she had been taught at Spence.
ETA: @Tiffany, jinx!
I don’t know many intelligent people who talk about how smart they are. They don’t need to.
Yup! I always find that those who feel the need to (humble)brag about how smart they are, are somewhat insecure people who want to get their tires pumped. It’s not that they’re dumb, but they think they’re a lot smarter than they are. I think Her Goopness falls into this category.
Conversely, truly smart people always feel there’s so much they don’t know, and know that learning is a lifelong experience. They’re also not ashamed to say they don’t know anything or enough about something.
Her never-ending superciliousness (there’s a biggie for you Goop!) just doesn’t stop does it. Next she’ll be bloviating (another one!) about how she has rarefied air from a remote mountain-top in Nepal imported and pumped into her house – that’s why her complexion looks so *refreshed*…
Indubitably!
Such intrigue tgat I can’t wait for a reply. This Aussie is going to look up what SAT words are….
The hair. Her hair is just so awful. So dry, so over processed. She would look so much better in her natural colour in a cute Bob or something. Her hairstylist needs to be fired.
THIS, good god. For someone selling an ultra-healthy lifestyle, her skin and hair look SO unhealthy, all the time. She’s her own worst advertisement.
Her skin looks shiny but not unhealthy. Her hair looks fine too imo.
That hair is awful. It’s fried and that shade of blonde is so yellow and budget looking. Ugh.
She needs to get a new colorist!
Oh, she thought by using SAT words, she is “above” the average person.
I’ve heard and read her interviews but she doesn’t impress me at all. Just because she uses words or phrases that are not normally used in a conversation or communication doesn’t make her a greater person. What’s the use of SAT words if she talks non-sense most of the time. Even simple question is answered by her with flowery words just to impress her interviewer. In my opinion, the simpler words you use, the better, as long as you clearly get your message across. She never struck me as someone who is smart at all. Just a celebrity trying to impress, that’s all.
I think she uses SAT words to hide her inability to make a coherent sentence. Besides, she also wants to intimidate people.
I want to make a good example. Between Angelina & Gwyneth, the former is more articulate than her. I remember, they were interviewed separately during the premier night of their movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) and they were asked the same question about “world” concern….. and guess what, Gwyneth answered unsatisfactorily while Angelina gave a brilliant answer. I wasn’t even an avid fan of Angelina yet at the time but I already noticed the wide difference between the two celebrities. So please Gwyneth, stop…. let other people say you’re brilliant or smart and should NEVER come from you.
Actually using obcure or challenging words unnecessarily to get your point across is nothing but try hard. Anybody with half a brain this day and age knows you don’t do that if you want your message to be heard and understood by as many people as possible. Otherwise, the only people who are going to understand what you say are intellectuals or somebody who simpy took English classes. If you’re talking that way to snobby peers, you’re just showing off and not really trying to spread a message. Attorneys are trained to NOT use big words, legal lingo, or latin for this very reason. Do you want the public to undersand or do you want to show the world you know alot of fancy words/another language?
I don’t think it’s ridiculous for her to believe that a woman showing ambition is frowned upon; however, it’s a pretty old-fashioned view that’s been changing. Praising Swifty for her unapologetic ownership of her career on one hand, and denouncing her own “aw, shucks, you want to give an award to meeeee?” behavior in the past on the other is an amusing juxtaposition, though…given that Swifty is a master of that trope.
Oh Goop :)……I am pretty sure Jodie Foster graduated from Yale, Natalie Portman graduated from Harvard and hell, Mayim Bialik has a ph.D in Neuroscience. Those women are of superior intelligence and don’t go around complaining how they need to remove “SAT” words from their vocabulary. Furthermore, I agree with other posts that it is not so much her vocabulary that is exhausting and pretentious, it is simply her over all message. Once again, she is humble bragging.
“……I am pretty sure Jodie Foster graduated from Yale, Natalie Portman graduated from Harvard and hell, Mayim Bialik has a ph.D in Neuroscience. Those women are of superior intelligence and don’t go around complaining how they need to remove “SAT” words from their vocabulary.”
Really good point. In reference to posters who comment on this site saying they don’t understand why most people can’t stand Gwyneth, this is a great example. She lives in a fantasy world. As you noted, there are tons of women in her line of work who are more accomplished and undeniably more intelligent than she is, but poor Gwyneth, she had to tone it down because no one could handle how exceptional she was. These are the exact reasons she is so damn insufferable.
And Emma Watson graduated from Brown, Meryl Streep from Yale and Brooke Shields from Princeton, etc. There are many talented and accomplished actresses who are intelligent and use “SAT words”, but use them correctly and sparingly. Her whole attitude is superior and based on the fact she won an Oscar 17 years ago.
I agree. She thinks & sees highly of herself. And it shows through her behavior.
+1
Thank you. And you just named two of my favorite actresses – favorites because they continued their education and still followed their Hollywood dream. I don’t ever hear Jodi Foster or Natalie Portman pontificating on their education or knowledge of the English language. One actress who did continue to further her education and does in fact talk like she’s reading an essay for her professor, is Ashley Judd, and she gets grief for it…as she should. It’s not necessary. It ends up looking insecure.
An SAT word? That’s funny. What is an SAT word? Do you mean speaking like a well-read, articulate person, Gwyneth? And that wouldn’t make you likable for viewers of movies? You’ve lost me.
I’m sure Meryl Streep or Glenn Close or Laura Linney, who graduated from Brown University and studied acting at Juilliard, all had to use a vocabulary we lowly peasants could understand in interviews and make them more likable. LOL These are woman renowned in theatre, not just movies, and have respect for the written word, true thespians. Gwyneth is in Iron Man.
Even Julia Roberts has always been extremely articulate in her interviews and not afraid to show her intelligence. But poor Gwyneth had to drop the “SAT words.” It sounds more like she was pretentious in interviews when starting out and trying to throw in “SAT words” to impress and still is pretentious and clueless in that comment
Julia Roberts is not exactly in the same league like Glenn Close etc. she is StreetSmart, but in her own way O.K, but not known as the brightest, she always had a very good Team and was trained for Media, that’s it.
Sooooooo shiny!
if she was younger and not famous she would be one of those women posting on facebook “i am an alpha female, strong and independent, everyone is just intimidated by me” every post would be about how strong she is and what a real woman she is.
she is terribly annoying but i find her quite entertaining in her absolute lack of self awareness, like someone incredibly naive can be cute.
No, I’d still hate her.
Doesn’t she speak three or four languages though?
I’ve only read that she speaks Spanish, but I have to admit her Spanish is awesome. Seriously perfect. But still, is that really a measure of intelligence? As for Latin-based languages, many of them share words and are very similar making it very easy to learn them once you master one. I speak fluent Italian and “meh” Spanish, and as a result I picked up Portuguese pretty easily.
Plus Gwyneth has nothing but time and money on her hands so that makes studying a language a lot easier than it would be for the average person. She can afford to go spend a year in whatever country and pay the best tutors and all that.
She lived in Spain for a Year or so as a Teen, with Language Training, thanks to Daddys Money, everyone could lern it, under so nice terms….
Yeah four I think.
Speaking many languages doesn’t make someone automatically intelligent. Some people have natural aptitude for language learning
She’s the textbook example of someone who possesses illusory superiority. I mean, we apparently envy her beauty, her intelligence and wit, her accomplishments as an actress AND as a cutting-edge lifestyle guru, so what else can Ms. Paltrow conceive in her mind that we envy her for? I can’t wait to see with what she comes up next.
She is unlikable primarily because of her being ELITIST and seemingly looks down on people NOT on her level. Her words & actions are the very reasons why she is UNLIKABLE. She has no humility in her body. In other words, her unlikability is due to her SUPERIORITY COMPLEX.
Well i define Elitist different, but each on their own, she is over-privileged with Money, people without Money are below her, she is a spoilt Hollywood brat, never lived in the real world…
I have never in any interview I have ever read featuring Gwyneth thought that she sounded above average or at all exceptionally intelligent. This woman needs to go away already. I can’t roll my eyes hard enough.
For all her bullsh-t finding it necessary to tell other women how to live and what the epitome of good taste and class is, what the hell is up with her face? She’ll preach about how everyone should steam their vagina, but she’ll walk around with a pound of oil on her forehead?
I normally don’t say things like this, but Gwyneth gets no holds barred because she’s always on a soapbox–I feel like she is aging terribly, especially for a woman who tries to constantly make others feel like they aren’t doing enough for their bodies or to promote optimum health. If she is the mecca of healthy living, shouldn’t it be showing up on her face and body more? I’m going to guess she still smokes because her face is wrinkling a lot.
She did indeed still smoke.
oh i thought she was using her Word of The Day calendar.
Maybe if she had a normal diet and stopped following/promoting every freaky fad diet her vagina wouldn’t smell so bad and she wouldn’t need to get it steam cleaned every month.
#theressomethingrottenindenmark
Brilliant! Best answer of the day.
It was the wad of seaweed she refused to shave – kinda’ stifled everything – couldn’t breathe.
Forgive my ignorance here, but what the heck is “steam cleaning” your vag? Is she really suggesting this? Again, apologies for my ignorance, but I really don’t follow Goop and all her bs and for good reason LOL
The soft roundness of her cheeks … That glow … Is it really Botox and all of that good, clean living or is it … Oh, what the heck, I’m just gonna go there …
What if what we’re looking at is the beginnings of a Baby Palchuk?
(Ducking while you throw Gwyneth-endorsed organic vegetables at me)
Simply addressing this post: I agree with you, @Kaiser, about the “shameless about their femininity” quote – I am not even sure what that means? I would kind of like to hear her explanation, but I do agree that this next generation of females is going to be exciting and I am looking forward to their future.
I take exception to the Taylor Swift being a good role model because she is “not naked on the red carpet”: 1) I thought we were supposed to get away from worrying about a women’s worth if she decided to show some skin and 2) this is coming from the woman who wore a sideless dress – on the red carpet – to an Iron Man premiere. I am tired of mothers not seeing themselves as intended role models for their daughters.
As for the SAT words; only reading what is above, I would like to see that quote in more context because I feel (completely an assumption on my part) like it was part of a bigger discussion of women still being desirable if they are seen and not heard. Many actresses are dinged for throwing around fifty cent words (Ashley Judd, Jessica Chastain) whereas men get fawned over for doing the same (Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston.) I am wondering if she is addressing women dumbing themselves down so as not to appear threatening, which would support her discussion about seeming ambitious.
She was talking about in the context of a “young tween daughter.” For a ten or eleven or twelve-year-old daughter, Taylor is a great role model.
I am not disputing Taylor as a good role model. I am questioning Gwyneth’s choice to include the fact that Taylor does not wear revealing clothes on the red carpet when Gwyneth herself wears revealing clothes on the red carpet.
“not naked on the red carpet…..” DId Gwenyth not wear a dress with sheer panels on either side showing just about everything???
That was the time she was sharing how her asisstant had to shave her “nether regions” for her because she usually went “70’s) style…….
the puffy face is making her look like Kristin Dunst in some photos….
If she could take her SAT words and tutor Raven Symone, we could wrap up 2 postings about ignorant women in 1 day.
She barely pass the Highschool (private privileged) and only got a place on College bc of Michael Douglas who had the right connections, but she didn’t made it, bc she was not smart enough for real education.
Thanks to Daddy and his connections in HW, she got jobs, and the thing with Harvey W. brought her an Oscar, dispite her mediocre “acting” well she is a narcisst, nothing else.
There is a reason nobody likes her, somebody with integrity or a Heart or a Soul could not like her….
I call her out on stuff, but I actually like Gwyneth. And I saw a movie done a few years back with Mark Ruffalo, and I realized, watching it, I had forgotten her charm. I think in person Gwyneth is probably very likeable and funny.
Someone on here called it perfectly, though. She humble-brags.
If you are rich and with the same lifestyle, maybe she would talk with you…..
Otherwise, not so charming and funny……she don’t bother with People below her, i don’t think that’s likable…..
You know, Jayna, though I’ve never really liked Gwynnie, I enjoyed her PBS show roadtripping in a Benz convertible, no less, with Mario Batali through Spain.
She was tolerable, even charming as you say, and I have to admit that there was something missing when she left the show…
Or maybe there was just no one left on it for me to make fun of – haha.
GOOP doesn’t bother me that much but the SAT word bit is cringeworthy. That said, she’s write about the ambition thing. Men are seen as confident, women are torn down (re: Alicia Vikander). I prefer ambition over humble bragging or over self-deprecation….I’m sick of the over the top, fake “I suck, I suck so badly” routine some actors do.
I agree. Ambition in women is still looked down on, so while AC gets torn apart JLaw just hides behind her “aw schucks” “fart” routine.
Hm, this would be a pretty good look if not for her head.
Barf!
Her vocabulary is not what makes her unlikeable.
Perhaps they found her naked ambition a bit OTT as she already had more than enough nepotistic connections to get her any job she wanted.
As for UCSB, supposedly the fact that it was a party school (which it can be, where you live and your major makes a HUGE difference, though). Anyway, she was supposedly expecting a ‘sweet little college by the sea’ and the party school atmosphere wasn’t right for her. Oh and she also wanted to be an anthropologist. Unfortunately for her, even Michael Douglas couldn’t have gotten her into UCSB’s highly competitive Anthro program–so perhaps after a year she realized she wasn’t going to get grades good enough to change majors.
As for her ‘expectations’ re UCSB–it’s 90 minutes away from LA, and I can’t believe she didn’t come North for vacations or family/friends visits plenty of times. Have trouble believing anything about UCSB was a surprise to her.
When is this woman going to change that tired hairstyle?
Of course her supression of ambition and SAT words is the reason she has gotten to where she is. It obviously had everything to do with not using big words and her heightened sense regarding sexist social cues in auditions and nothing to do with her family’s second to none connections in the entertainment industry. I’m sure Spielberg/fincher/etc would have found someone else if she used the word nepotisim in any of her auditions…
It isn’t her words. She’s so out of tune she simply does not understand what an ahole she is, comes across. She is passive/aggressive alpha
People do not like her because she says things like “William Joel” instead of what everyone knows him by: “Billy Joel”….stuff like that.
She is pretentious, nothing more. Her statement about being “advised against using SAT words” only proves it. Never in the history of Gwyneth’s public image was she ever seen as “too smart” or “too intellectual”, only “too snobby”. I’m pretty sure that the people who have always been her fans (like Lainey) would not desert her bc she chose to use large words in interviews, so I’m not really sure whose heads she (or her team) was worried about going over.
As someone who grew up being condescended to for being the “smart girl” this really bugs me. There are plenty of actresses who come off as either genuinely intelligent/literate or try-too-hard; Fishsticks is not one of them. She doesn’t even make the Ashley Judd grade of women who look like they’re working desperately hard to come across as well-educated. Her level of discourse has always been median valley girl.
Plenty of reasons she comes across as unlikeable, but that’s not one of them. Unless she thinks “handcrafted artisanal pizza stone” is an SAT word, which to be fair it might be at the kind of schools her kind go to.
She had work done but it was done well.
Seemed unlikable? How about IS unlikable….extremely unlikable.
Her hair makes me sad.
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Doesn’t use “big words” , for the public will find her insufferable? Im of the belief that her pretentious ass has eclipsed that notion.