Gwyneth Paltrow, our guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is an Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actress and a businesswoman who founded and serves as the CEO of the lifestyle company Goop.
Paltrow first made her name in the 1990s and 2000s — in films like 1995’s Se7en, 1996’s Emma, 1998’s Shakespeare in Love, 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, 2001’s The Royal Tenenbaums, 2003’s Sylvia, 2005’s Proof and 2008’s Iron Man — when, in the words of the New York Times, “she was, for a while, the best young American actor in Hollywood… to see her on a screen was a guarantee of a compelling performance.” Vanity Fair declared that she was “not just a movie star but also an actress to be reckoned with.” And People magazine deemed her the most beautiful woman in the world.
Then, in 2008, she started Goop, which initially was a free newsletter, but grew into a cultural phenomenon — independently valued in 2020 at $433 million — that largely took her away from acting. In 2025, though, she was lured back to the big screen to star opposite Timothée Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s dramedy Marty Supreme, playing a woman who gave up her career as an actress, only to return to acting years later. It’s a performance that is a little meta, to be sure, but it’s also generating best supporting actress Oscar buzz for her some 27 years after she took home a best actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love.
Over the course of a conversation at the Maybourne Beverly Hills hotel, the 53-year-old reflected on how she wound up a stage and screen actress, generally, and “the First Lady of Miramax,” Harvey Weinstein’s company, specifically; what led her to work with so many great filmmakers early in their career, including David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfonso Cuarón and Wes Anderson; why she became disillusioned with Hollywood and gravitated more toward business, and what lured her back for Marty Supreme; why she thinks she is such a polarizing person; whether she plans to continue acting, or go back into retirement; plus much more.