celebrity interview
Her clean living and yummy mummy reputation have not always worked in Gwyneth Paltrow’s favour, but as GABRIELLE DONNELLY finds, her genuine warmth and family values set her apart from the typical Hollywood jet set
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his month’s new release by director Steven Soderbergh, Contagion, sees the world faced with a deadly virus that
threatens to wipe out 15 per cent of its population. “It’s not just a virus, it’s a super-virus,” explains Gwyneth Paltrow, who stars in the film alongside Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law. “It’s like the Bubonic Plague and could do a lot of damage all over the world. I play the person who releases the virus.” She stops and smiles, more than a little wryly. “When I read the script Steven sent me, I said, ‘Thanks a lot – this is going to do a lot for my already warm and fuzzy image!’” The thing about Gwyneth is that she makes it, frankly, inconveniently difficult to dislike her. Oh, you can call her a spoilt rich girl, blessed
with more good looks than is right or fair. You can point to her TV director daddy, her top actress mommy, her upbringing surrounded by the cream of the crop of Hollywood’s movers and shakers and say she’s never known a day’s professional struggle in her life. You can look at her life now, the marriage to Chris Martin, the famous friends with first names like Madonna and Stella, the house in Belsize Park where she whips up trendily organic food for her trendily named children and say you wish we all had it so good. And then you meet her and suggest to her, very gently, that she might just be perceived by the more, well, normal among us as being ever so slightly on the privileged side. And she shrugs those toned shoulders, flicks back that perfect
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golden hair, looks me square in the eye and comments, deadpan, “Aren’t I (expletive – and it was an expletive – deleted) annoying!” Damn the woman, on top of all of that, she is actually pretty likeable. The Gwyneth Paltrow story is well
known. Born in Los Angeles, the adored and adoring daughter of television director Bruce Paltrow (who tragically died of cancer just days after Gwyneth’s 30th birthday) and his blonde and beautiful actress wife Blythe Danner, she was given her first major screen role at age 18 in the movie Hook by its director Steven Spielberg, who happened to be her godfather, picking up an Oscar at just 27 for Shakespeare in Love – and doing so, by the way, in a sugar pink dress credited with having single-handedly brought
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