Iron Man 2 has become quite a drama-filled set. Recently, it was reported that Gwyneth Paltrow got her panties in a bunch about co-star Scarlett Johansson. Something about Goopy not getting any attention from the crew, because they were all so busy paying attention to Scarlett in her Black Widow costume. Now word comes from Star magazine that Gwyneth is going to spend the summer on the set rather than spend any time with her husband, Chris Martin. Apparently, Gwyneth is “fine” with being apart from Chris, and she looks forward to having some time to herself, and their marriage is basically just about the kids at this point:
Talk of trouble in their five-and-a-half-year union has long swirled around Gwyneth Paltrow and her rocker hubby, Chris Martin.
And the parents of two are setting tongues wagging again, since they’ll be apart for months this summer as Gwyneth, 36, shoots Iron Man 2 in LA, while Chris, 32, embarks on a 16-week tour with his megaband, Coldplay.
Tellingly, Gwyneth is happy with the odd arrangement, says an insider, though she played the part of the supportive wife by showing up at the opening night of Coldplay’s North American tour in West Palm Beach, Fla. on May 15.
“It lets her do her own thing. She like her freedom and has her mom, Blythe Danner, to help with the kids, Apple and Moses,” says the insider.
“They’ll try to visit Chris when she has breaks in her schedule, but Gwyneth’s fine with being apart for so long.”
Why stay in the marriage at all?
“At this point,” adds the insider, “they’re really just in it for the children’s sake.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition, June 1 2009]
I totally buy this story. I think Gwyneth and Chris have some sort of weird marriage where they really don’t care about each other’s activities or lives. It doesn’t even seem like Chris spends that much time with the kids (or Gwyneth, for that matter) anyway. Of all the couples we talk about who could be splitting, I’d put my money on Gwyneth and Chris ending in the next year or so. She did show up at his Coldplay concert in Miami, though, and there have been a couple of sightings of the two of them together, but no photos.
In happier (or funnier) news from the Iron Man 2 set, I came across this little story that Robert Downey Jr. Robert is quite famous now for taking care of himself (after years of drug abuse) and he’s got the great body to prove it, as we recently saw from his awesome shirtless Sherlock Holmes trailer. But Robert is having issues with the demands of Iron Man 2 – specifically, the doughnut-eating demands:
Robert Downey Jr. just learned that calories count when you’re wearing the “Iron Man” suit – because if you pork up, the waistline can’t be let out even a smidgin without a blowtorch!
After scenes that required him to keep eating donuts over a three-day shoot, Downey wasn’t kidding when he griped to wardrobe: “I’ve gotten so fat I can’t breathe in this thing!”
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 1 2009]
I’ve read that most star in that situation have a food/barf bucket close at hand for their eating scenes. Very rarely are actors actually eating and processing the food in films, they usually just chew and spit. It looks like Robert hasn’t been doing that, though! Can Iron Man have a gut? Of course he can! It’s just more to love.
Gwyneth Paltrow is shown out with her daughter Apple, 5, and Moses, 3, on 3/29/09. Robert Downey, Jr. is shown out with his wife, Susan, and son, Falconer, 16, on 5/17/09. Credit: WENN.com
I wish they would fire her from Iron Man, she is dragging the movie down.
Okay, just because G & C will be apart a lot this summer because of his tour does NOT mean they’ll never see each other. You have to remember — these people are absolutely LOADED. For them, flying thousands of miles to be together for a long weekend is as easy as one of us “regular folk” driving to the cottage. For all I know, they ARE headed for splitsville, but I find that hard to believe based simply on the facts that we never see photos of them together and they’re not living under the same roof for a summer.
Moses really looks like his dad.
It was just the other day that I read that people on set were mad because she was taking two weeks off to go follow him on tour. Can’t have it both ways. As much as I can’t stand her, she and the husband have made an effort to never be photographed together much; there’s been no real change in that.
I believe they are never photographed together because they are really separated. I believe they have a Kate and Jon marriage. I can’t stand her in Ironman either.
RDJr’s son Falconer reminds me of Bud Cort!
That baby does not look like Chris Martin.
I have no idea what the state of GP’s marriage is, and really don’t care all that much. I do think, though, that you can’t judge it by their having to be apart because of their respective careers. My husband is in the military and throughout our marriage we have had periods of time apart (the longest being a year)and he will probably be going on a 6-month tour in the fall.
I am okay with that, not because I don’t love my husband or wish we were together, but because that is just what he signed up for (and I did, too, when we married). It’s just reality and a lot of women–and men!–deal with that sort of necessary, temporary separation with their spouses.
Gwyneth should just marry Madonna …
I really don’t care for the state of Gwyneth’s marriage (or Gwyn-ugh-th as my friend calls her), I’m just happy to see a RDJ post! The son’s name is Indio, not Falconer.
Funny that Kaiser beleive their breaking up. When a break up rumor about Brange hit the net he quickly dismiss it and other unsavory rumors about them. I think Chris and Gwyneth have great private relationship which is better and that they will have a long happy marriage.
I remember when goopy was the it girl, and I always thought both her talent and looks were overrated. She’s pretty and a good actress, but she is not a beauty or a great actress.
Now I feel vindicated. We’ve never heard anything negative about scarjo on a set before now, but goop has a history of being annoying. Do the math. Goop is jealous.
I don’t think so. I think they are seperated. GP is trying to hide it.
She stinks as an actress.
Man, tons of work schedules around the world require partners to be apart for weeks and months at a time. it’s so cheesy to assume they’re breaking up because they dont spend every night together. It’s not ideal, but it DOES keep the marriage fresh, and I also kinda look forward to having time to myself when hubby is away. It means we have lives apart from our marriage, so that we can bring something to the marriage. Get it?
That is one unfortunate looking child. 🙁