Gwyneth Paltrow receives the ultimate spoiler, learns that she was in Spider-Man: Homecoming
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We get it. Sometimes the constant grind causes days, months, and high-profile cameos to kind of blend together. Case in point: Gwyneth Paltrow appeared alongside Jon Favreau and chef Roy Choi in their new Netflix cooking show, The Chef Show. The best summation of its premise exists in the below clip, where Paltrow asks what the show is for and Favreau responds, “We don’t know.” But watching celebrities putter around in a kitchen is fun, right? Anyway, Favreau begins to explain how the idea came into fruition and mentions their time in Atlanta filming Spider-Man: Homecoming, news that apparently comes as a bit of a shock to the Goop founder.
“We weren’t in Spider-Man,” Paltrow counters with enough conviction to make us question our own recollections of her brief, but very real presence towards the end of the film. Favreau is then tasked with breaking down her appearance – “Tom Holland’s there and you’re gonna walk out and do a press conference” – which is enough to jog the memory of her at least filming the scene, even if she didn’t know where it eventually landed. You can stream the episode, as well as the rest of the season, on Netflix now.
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This is exactly the sort of thing that I expect out of Gwyneth Paltrow. Never change.
Before Goop: I love Gwyneth Paltrow!After Goop: Oh these scenes in Endgame with RDJ and Paltrow seem weird now…
The natural evolution will be hosting GOOP parties and MLM #bossbabe people going into eternal debt to buy GOOP merchandise to keep their purple vagina egg presenter status
I found it funny that Peter’s teacher in Homecoming also played a Satanist on Silicon Valley considering Spider-Man’s relationship with Faustian Pacts in the comics…
I have a theory that Martin Starr has only played one character in every movie or TV show he’s ever done.
This is the sort of thing people say to seem clever while dissing an actor. Roman and Gilfoyle are very different and Starr is good as both of them.
I’m joking, you dimwit.
Socially maladjusted, condescending nerds with esoteric knowledge who think they’re the smartest person in the room? Yup, completely different.
Socially maladjusted, condescending nerds with esoteric knowledge who think they’re the smartest person in the room
~ The AV Club
Oh thank god you said it. The second I read his comment, I was afraid that nobody would have taken the opportunity in our post-Disqus hellscape.
I saw the Taco Bell bell in a very recent article’s comment section and I was delighted. I wasn’t the only one.
*tears up* BONG indeed my friend. BONG indeed.
<3
I mean, that one was practically handed to you on a silver platter. Carpe AV Club meme!
That top panel just made me imagine Mephisto singing ‘You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)’.Also, fuck ‘One More Day’ in its entirety.
On the one hand, I imagine filming these films back-to-back in an order that only makes sense from Feige’s point-of-view makes them hard to keep track of in your mind.On the other hand, I 100% expected this from Gwyneth Paltrow.
She’s constantly eating pretend food and starving what more do you want from her.
“What were we talking about? Sorry, I haven’t eaten for days. I’m on a cleanse. A calorie cleanse. That’s where you don’t eat and…um…(faints).”
Presumably she’s also sticking eggs down there as well.
I get this feeling that half of the reason that Marvel sticks lots of characters in it’s movies is so that while they are there they can film cameos to be stuck in other movies…
I 100% believe that Marvel/Disney has a vault of “outtakes” which could be cut into a movie of their own.
They could probably have just given her the Bowfinger treatment
It reminds me of Brie Larson’s story of recording the tag from Captain Marvel – she talks about standing on an empty set, delivering her line without any sort of context and that was that.I can easily see Goop One forgetting what paycheck she was earning that day – probably the same deal. Show up on a fairly generic set with only those directly involved hanging around, get handed one page of strictly her lines with everything else redacted, do the job, get paid, go home.
she talks about standing on an empty set, delivering her line without any sort of context and that was that.But what about the rest of the movie?
I would happily go back in time and change Gwyneth’s casting in Iron Man. It’s clear they were casting her because they needed a name actor (RDJ wasn’t exactly the gold standard he is nowadays back then), and she’s never not annoyed me in the role. She’s just kinda there. It works, I guess, but I’ve never found myself watching those movies and giving much of a shit about what Pepper Potts is doing.
FWIW, Pepper’s never exactly been written into a major role. Even when the character is (offscreen) becoming what should make her a major name and face to the world, the character is still reduced to “Tony’s love interest/assistant/fridge occupant”.I don’t know what Paltrow could’ve done with a meatier role with more presence in the series, but that wasn’t ever in danger of occurring.
I don’t care about the role. It’s her in it I don’t like. Just like with everything else in her life, she got lucky and fell right the fuck into it.
I thought she had good chemistry with RDJ in the first Iron Man, but if Don Cheadle had replaced her instead of Terrence Howard for the rest of the MCU franchise, I would’ve been perfectly fine with that.
“Black Pepper,” they’d call him/her.
Just the other night I was wondering what Christina Hendricks would do with the role.
She’d have my ass in a theater seat is what she’d do.
It a different world she lives in…if I made 100k for a 5 minute thing, I would remember it forever.
I probably wouldn’t because I would black out from sheer joy/relief.
If Gwyneth Paltrow were your girlfriend, you’d ask her, giggly and a little embarrassed, what it was like to work with Robert Downey, Jr. She would stare at you, half-smiling, like it was a joke she didn’t get. “Who?” she’d say. You’d clarify. She’d shake her head. “I don’t think I know a Robert,” she’d say, confused.
http://the-toast.net/2015/07/08/if-gwyneth-paltrow-were-your-girlfriend/
I loved DINNER FOR FIVE, so I’m hoping for good things from this show.
I saw just a still image from this show on another site and briefly hoped it was a return of “Dinner for 5.” Sadly, that show stopped just as Favreau’s career was kicking into high gear.Kevin Smith (when he guest hosted) made a joke about the “obligatory Swingers reference”, but just thing how many more things he could reference now!
Like that episode of the Sopranos when he did coke with Chris Moltisanti and stole his story for a movie! What else… ah yes, Elf.
Am I the only one who saw Zathura??(Just kidding, I didn’t see Zathura.)
I saw it. It was not a lot different than Jumanji, which made it aggressively “alright” with pretty good effects.
But it was an important stepping stone for J. Favs’ career, so I support it!
the show is excellent! even this episode…I worked w/Favreau when I was very very young and had no right to be working with him at all… the dude is a stand up guy… the person you are seeing on screen is the person you get in real life.
I watched the Downey/Holland one, and enjoyed the roundtable stuff quite a lot. But the chef stuff is not my cuppa – I may not be back, if this is the typical food/showbiz ratio.
I worked as an animator on an MMO for 5 years. At a animation meeting we were playtesting a new feature and we went to the NPC to get the quest who is playing one of the several library animations we’ve made. I said “Wow, who did that animation for this guy it looks awful, I’m going to have to fix it. Can’t believe this has been live.” Get back to my desk, check the submit log. I had animated it 3 years ago.So I get it Gwyneth.
Same thing happens in programming. “Wow, who put in this garbage? Oh, it was me three years ago.”
I laughed at both of you. Then I remembered working on Solidworks models I designed 5 or 10 years back and cursing the MF who designed them. Knowing full well it was me before I developed the methods I use today.
HELLO!?!? are you me?
I don’t think so, let me check the file properties to see who authored it….Damn. I guess I am.
Same thing happens in programming.Same thing in lawyer-ing. “Who wrote these shitty pleadings? They suck so ba… oh. It was me 10 years ago. Heh.”
I work for a Youtube channel with daily uploads. I can’t tell you what topics I specifically worked on last week.
I’m the same way, but with my kids.
Ditto
Hey! You don’t even know my kids!
You don’t know mine either, but I can totally relate. 😉
“Man, you’re one fuck-ugly bastard! I’d sure hate to be your dad. Oh great, now you’re crying, and some annoying bitch is telling me she wants a divorce. Like I care, lady!”
I work for a software company and i’ll talk to people that tell me something like, “you helped set this up in my system” and i’ll have no idea what they are talking about. I have to go back and look at notes I have.
Very common experience for a developer. When I see bad code in the repository, I am now very careful about saying “Who wrote THIS?” because saying that causes it to be me.
Is this show a companion piece to the movie “Chef?”
Of sorts, it seems, since Choi and Favreau met because of “Chef.” But I don’t think there’s any sort of narrative to these, just cooking with other famous people they’re friends with.
Realized just now that even thinking about that movie gets me hungry. Where’s a Cubano when you need one.
Right here:http://www.cafecitochicago.com/Although that may not work if you are outside their delivery area by several hundred miles.
You mean the 90 minute Twitter ad “Chef”?
I didn’t think it was possible but I like her a little bit less now. I can see how she thought it was for an Avengers flick but you would think she might take a couple hours a year to catch up on the Marvel Movie Universe that she is part of.
A lot of actors don’t watch their own stuff and I would never begrudge her for especially skipping having to sit through a days worth of content for the, generously speaking, 15% of screen time she gets in these things.
Why would she need to? She showed up, did her job and got paid. We can’t hold these actors responsible if they’re not die-hard Marvel nerds. It’s totally reasonable that, after doing a handful of small-ish cameos over the years, she’d lose track.
I haven’t seen seen Homecoming, but I assume that her role in that was similar to her role in Infinity War—showing up long enough to remind the audience that she’s Tony’s love interest, in preparation for her larger role in Endgame. Some of these cameos are much closer to filming a promo than having an actual part in the movie; it’s not surprising to me that she lost track of which movie was which (or never bothered to remember it in the first place).
Her role is MUCH smaller in “Homecoming.” It really is just a quick cameo, one scene at the very end of the movie. It would have been extremely easy for an actress to lose track after a few years.
I get that, but on the other hand it’s not like she’s a fan. I’m not a fan of sports, so if I were to, say, appear in a series of films about baseball, that wouldn’t suddenly make me a sports fan, plus (like a lot of actual actors) I don’t like seeing myself on film anyway. If I knew I’d had a big role in the Babe Ruth episode and also shot some cameos for a couple others and 2 years later someone said “You were great at the end of the Joe Medwick episode,” I could totally see myself responding “I wasn’t in that one, I was in the Babe Ruth one!” even though I *did* appear in the Medwick episode at the end. To talk at a press conference. Probably about foul balls.It’d be tough to be a part of the MLU.
Do you like watching your co-workers do their jobs when you’re not at work? No? I would think she has a very similar perspective on watching MCU movies.
“If you’re working, you’re not seeing” is a phrase I have to use a lot when I don’t go see shows that involve my other friends in the industry because I’m on set or backstage. Add to that having kids, and I doubt she watches much of anything besides Steven Universe and the “hilarious” Vines or Youtube videos that get brought to her.
secrets secrets sometimes I cry silently to myself over the glow forge while making samples while the tip of my 3-d pen burns my inner thigh skin just a lil’ il’ bit about how easy things are now compared to 10 years ago….but that’s neither here nor there…goopity goop is actually incredibly sweet and funny just overworked on occasion (I have met her numerous times…once even at a funeral) which is why I think when you see her in these off the cuff interviews she comes off scatterbrained and in need of a sandwich….she has even said herself when gwen was a hard partying boozehound who smoked a pack a day everyone loved her, but when she settled down and really just founded a her niche marketplace not much different than kate h, jessica alba, reese witherspoon etc… gwyneth paltrow went from tabloid cool girl to waspy witch overnight…she was able to raise her kids and build a business that was all hers….and honestly not everyone can do that and I am looking at you blake lively!
On a post mentioning her the other day, someone in the comments just referred to her as “Goop”.Please make that a forever tradition everywhere.
No worries, it will be, if Goop herself has any say in it: goop.com. It’s…it’s a thing.
I vote for “Goop Actual”
As someone who is marathoning Battlestar Galactica for the millionth time I approve. I had forgotten just how many times the phrase “Galactica Actual” gets said over the course of that series.
You’d think someone would just say “Galactual” eventually.
Goop Vagina-Egg, to use her full name.
Oh, come on! Be fair! You’d be distracted too if you had vagina rocks and bees stinging your cooter!
Hey, I also don’t remember being in Spiderman!…
Nice try, Michael Keaton.
He thought he was still filming ‘Birdman’.
To be fair, it’s hard to keep track of what movies you’re in when you’re trying to keep a jade egg from popping out of your vajayjay.
I think that’s actually how she keeps track of time. “When was I doing that again? I had the speckled amber in my vagina, so it must have been a Thursday.”
This sounds like a good photoshop contest: Other movies Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t know she was in.
She did a day of shooting in some Marvel flick 3 years ago. Can’t blame her for not remembering. Her money manager knows she was in it every time they cash a royalty check and that is all that matters
Wow, a reason to like Gwyneth Paltrow. This really is an amazing show.
Perfectly understandable. I mean, to us it’s a blockbuster, but to her it was an afternoon’s work, probably sandwiched in-between shooting some other film and doing promotional work.
Wait,was I in Spider-Man?