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Gwyneth Paltrow referred to her upbringing with parents Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner as “very privileged” in a new interview about her movie Marty Supreme
Gwyneth’s father Bruce, who died at 58 in 2002, was a television director and producer, while her mother Blythe is an Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actress
Marty Supreme is in theaters Dec. 25
Gwyneth Paltrow is reflecting on her upbringing with parents Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner.
When Gwyneth, 53, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss her role in the new movie Marty Supreme for a piece published Wednesday, Dec. 3, the actress laughed when asked about director Josh Safdie’s assertion to Vogue that he wanted to cast someone with “a landed gentry quality” in the film.
“It must be a quality that I give off. I come from a very WASPy mother with Mayflower-ish roots, daughter of the American Revolution, all that kind of stuff,” she said. “So I think maybe epigenetically, there is some of that there. And I was a very privileged kid. I grew up on the Upper East Side, and I went to a great school and all the things. So some of the stuff that he sees, which is also the stuff I’ve been criticized for my whole life, is real.”
Gwyneth is the daughter of the late director and producer Bruce, who died of cancer-related pneumonia at age 58 in 2002, and Danner, 82, an Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actress. (The couple also had Gwyneth’s younger brother Jake Paltrow, a filmmaker who most recently released the 2022 movie June Zero.)
Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection/Getty Jake Paltrow, Blythe Danner, Gwyneth Paltrow and Bruce Paltrow on Dec. 11, 1991
Gwyneth made her onscreen debut in a 1989 television movie written and directed by her father titled High, which released when she was just 17 years old. (Bruce himself was a nine-time Emmy nominee for his work producing the series The White Shadow and St. Elsewhere.)
In 1998, Gwyneth famously won an Academy Award for her performance in Shakespeare in Love. She later welcomed her two children — daughter Apple, 21, and son Moses, 19 — with ex-husband Chris Martin. (Gwyneth and Martin were married from 2003 to 2014; she is now married to television writer and producer Brad Falchuk.)
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Evan Agostini/ImageDirect Gwyneth Paltrow, Bruce Paltrow, Blythe Danner and Jake Paltrow on Sept. 9, 2000
Gwyneth costars with Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme, which follows Chalamet, 29, as an aspiring professional table tennis player named Marty Mauser in the 1950s. She plays Kay Stone, a fictional actress, in the movie. The two characters’ paths cross as Marty seeks to take his table tennis career to new heights.
She told THR that her brother Jake implored her to take the part in Marty Supreme. “He was absolutely emphatic about it,” she said, noting that she thought the project “could be a really interesting thing to do” during a transitional period after her and Falchuk’s own two children all moved out of their home.
Marty Supreme is in theaters Dec. 25.
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