Gwyneth Paltrow On Why She’s Never Seen ‘Avengers: Endgame’
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Her last big screen credit was Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, a film she told the audience in Jeddah she’s never actually seen.
“To be honest, I stopped watching them at some point. I’ve never seen End Game. I can’t keep track of who’s what. But I probably should at some point,” she said of the later MCU films.
Breaking down her gradual disillusionment with the MCU, Paltrow said she had been persuaded, after a strong protest, to star in the first Iron Man film, alongside Robert Downey Jr after receiving assurances that despite all of the film’s superhero trappings the production would remain a unique and artistically stimulating experience.
“The first film we did was very different from the rest because the studio didn’t think it was going to be a big hit,” she said. “They hired Jon Favreau to direct who was great. And they hired Robert Downey Jr., who was unhireable at the time. His career was at a very low point.”
Paltrow continued to say that because the film was so low stakes for the studio they approached every day on set like an indie film and the cast was afforded the freedom to experiment.
“We improvised almost every scene of that movie. We would write scenes in the morning in Jon’s trailer. It was like doing an independent film. Then the movie was such a huge hit that then we didn’t make them like that anymore,” she said.
Concluding the talk Paltrow was asked whether she had any plans to return to acting. After a hesitant groan, she responded: “I never say never. I’m really happy and busy doing what I’m doing. But if one of my best said, please come and do this, maybe I would consider.”