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Gwyneth Paltrow Opens Up About Her Return to Acting in Marty Supreme
Gwyneth Paltrow is stepping back into the spotlight in a big way with Marty Supreme, the upcoming A24 film directed by Josh Safdie. In a new Vanity Fair cover story, Paltrow shared fresh details about her role and her experience working alongside Timothée Chalamet in the highly anticipated project.
A Bold New Role
Marty Supreme follows Chalamet as a rising ping pong prodigy competing internationally. Paltrow, making her return to serious acting, plays the wife of one of his professional rivals—who unexpectedly finds herself entangled with Chalamet’s character.
“This woman is married to someone in what you could call the ‘Ping-Pong mafia,’” Paltrow explained. “They meet, and she’s had a pretty tough life. I think he breathes life back into her, but it’s a bit transactional for them both.”
The film first made waves when paparazzi captured Chalamet and Paltrow passionately kissing on set. Now, Paltrow confirms that audiences can expect even more intense scenes between the two.
“I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie,” she teased. “There’s a lot—a lot.”
A New Era of Filmmaking
Filming those scenes also introduced Paltrow to the role of an intimacy coordinator—something she had never encountered in her decades-long career.
“There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed,” she admitted. When one approached her on set to discuss a particular move for a scene, Paltrow had a candid reaction. “I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’”
While recognizing the importance of the role, she and Chalamet ultimately decided to navigate their scenes without much assistance. “We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back,’” she said. “I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but if someone is like, ‘Okay, and then he’s going to put his hand here,’ I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.”
Paltrow also poked fun at the age gap between her and her co-star, joking, “I was like, ‘Okay, great. I’m 109 years old. You’re 14.’”
Praise for Chalamet
Despite the generational divide, Paltrow had high praise for Chalamet, calling him “a thinking man’s sex symbol.”
“He’s just a very polite, properly raised—I was going to say kid. He’s a man who takes his work really seriously and is a fun partner,” she said.
A Return to Serious Acting
Although Paltrow has remained a presence in Hollywood through her role as Pepper Potts in the Avengers films and a supporting turn in Netflix’s The Politician, she sees Marty Supreme as her first serious acting role since Country Strong (2010).
By “serious,” she means fully immersing herself in a raw, vulnerable performance. “It’s different when you’re reprising an Avengers thing,” she noted.
Like any artist returning to their craft after a long hiatus, she had moments of doubt. But encouragement from a longtime friend—Cameron Diaz—helped her embrace the challenge. Diaz, who recently ended her own 11-year break from acting with Back in Action, reminded Paltrow that her life experiences would only deepen her performance.
“Cameron Diaz is one of my best friends—sorry to name-drop,” Paltrow laughed. “She told me, ‘Think about the richness and the deepening of your life. That’s all material.’ I’ve gone through a lot since the last time I was on screen in a real way.”
A Star’s Comeback
Director Josh Safdie is equally thrilled about Paltrow’s return to the screen.
“She’s a movie star,” he said. “I say that in the cosmic sense. She has a gravitational pull that only a camera can capture. I think her absence from acting has lent a vulnerability to her abilities.”
Audiences can see Paltrow’s much-anticipated comeback when Marty Supreme hits theaters on December 25.
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