Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t think people will ‘understand’ her until she’s ‘dead’

The Hollywood star and wellness guru has “no idea” why people have drawn certain conclusions about her and she finds some aspects of her public image hurtful

Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t think people will “understand” her until she is “dead”. The 52-year-old actress and wellness guru is baffled by the “narrative” surrounding her persona because she often has “no idea” why people have drawn certain conclusions about her and she finds some aspects of her public image hurtful.

Speaking in a teaser clip for her appearance on The Cutting Room Floor podcast, she said: “No one will understand me until I’m dead. I have never created my own narrative. I’m aware that that exists.

“But I have had a really strange life in this respect. Like, imagine being an actual person and know that people are characterising you in a way and you can’t understand how they arrived at that narrative. I have no idea who people are talking about.

“I’ve lived for many decades now with this avatar that’s, like, projected on very very strongly, and I don’t know why. I know why, but these are like very tropey, reductive things that you could say about a lot of people and culture. And I also feel like I get distilled down to the most easy-to-understand trope. We’re all human beings, so it hurts when somebody wilfully misrepresents you or misperceives you.”

Although the Goop founder and Hollywood star has been keen to correct people’s misconceptions she is now trying to just move past worrying about her public image.

She added: “You want to say, ‘But this is not true,’ or, ‘I never said that,’ but lately I’ve been really trying to almost meditate on this idea of, if you could get to the stage where you could really let go of trying to correct misperception, what could that do?”

The actress recently opened up about her filming experiences and revealed she told intimacy co-ordinators to ‘step back’ while filming intimate scenes.

The actress was speaking specifically about filming with Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet. The pair star in new movie Marty Supreme.

Chalamet, 29, stars as a ping pong protégé, while Paltrow, 52, plays the wife of a rival professional who falls into bed with him. Paltrow admits that the film is very racy, with more than a few not safe for work moments.

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