Gwyneth Paltrow opens up about her acting career in a new interview, revealing she believes she was pretending to be someone she wasn’t during her acting career.
Paltrow, who won an Academy Award for “Shakespeare in Love” back in 1999, gets asked about whether she’s “an actor who developed a career as a lifestyle entrepreneur, or a lifestyle entrepreneur who happened to have a career as an actor.”
She tells The New York Times, “I was masquerading as an actor.”
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Paltrow, who has now launched her lifestyle business Goop, says of her actress mother, Blythe Danner. “She always said, ‘Oh, please don’t be an actress,'” Paltrow admits. “She was pleading with me to leverage my intellectual self more than my artistic self, and I think she was just trying to protect me from a lot of rejection. It can be a heartbreaking career.”
The Goop founder adds of whether she’s learned to say “no” to certain requests: “I am still very much in the ‘yes’ phase of my life, probably to my detriment sometimes.”
“But having the platform that I do puts me in this position to be able to share whatever lessons I’ve learned over time,” she adds. “I think I have some maturing to do before I get to the ‘no’ phase.”
