Gwyneth Paltrow plays Pepper Potts in Marvel Studios movies iron man and the avengers The film criticized Hollywood’s superhero boom for lacking quality.
Currently appearing on hot ones On the podcast, the Goop entrepreneur joined actresses Issa Rae and Dakota Johnson to bash Hollywood in general and superhero movies in particular. The Wrap report.
Paltrow told podcast host Sean Evans that it’s difficult to make “truly original” superhero movies these days.
“If you look at the industry as a whole, I think this kind of big push into superhero movies can only make great movies that feel truly original,” Paltrow added. I still always try to reach as many people as possible, but sometimes that gets in the way of quality, specificity, and real perspective. ”
Of course, fans of superhero movies don’t really care much about “point of view,” they just want a story that’s as true to the source material as possible. And the recent string of box office failures of woke superhero movies may prove just that.
Paltrow lamented that mid-budget and independent films seem to be a thing of the past these days.
“Sometimes I lament that fact because I grew up watching those movies.” [that] “When I look back at some of the movies I made in the ’90s, I don’t think I could make them today,” she said. “I think the less risk there is and the more people can express their true voices and make films the way they want to make them, the more diversity there will be in the arts. And I think people will generally appreciate them more.” I think that resonates more.”
In fact, last year Paltrow claimed that that they sold first iron man For her, the film is considered an “indie” film, which is why she agreed to appear in it.
“The first movie we made was very different from other movies, because the studio didn’t think it was going to be a big hit,” she said. rolling stone at that time. “They said, ‘It’s going to feel like we’re shooting an indie movie.’ We’re going to have fun and we don’t have to be too involved in the action parts anyway,” she recalled. “And I thought, ‘Oh, okay.’
Regardless of how she feels about that first project, she also said she has no interest in watching the latest Marvel movie.
Paltrow wasn’t really interested in the Marvel movie series, so in 2019 report He said he didn’t know that Samuel L. Jackson was starring in the same movie as him.
Also, hot ones On her podcast, Paltrow criticized former Democratic President Bill Clinton for falling asleep during a White House screening of the 1996 film. emma.
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