Gwyneth Paltrow participated in a career retrospective video interview with Vanity Fair and was shocked to discover that she has played Pepper Potts in seven Marvel movies. Watching a clip from 2008’s “Iron Man,” which kicked off the MCU, Paltrow remarked: “It’s not a great wig, guys. Let’s face it.”
“We had so much fun on this movie. It felt like an independent movie,” Paltrow said. “Jon [Favreau], Robert [Downey Jr.] and I improvised all day every day. There was a lot of rewriting. We’d go to Jon’s trailer in the morning and the three of us would improv. It’s not typical to do that on a big-budget action movie. Jon was so brilliant and he wanted it to feel like it had a reality to it and that it was character-based.”
“There was no pressure on us,” Paltrow added. “Nobody thought it would turn into anything. The studio felt they had taken this big risk with Robert as a leading man and it probably won’t even be a hit. And then it came out and it changed the course of that studio.”
When asked if she could have ever imagined that she’d go on to play Pepper Potts in six more Marvel movies, including the blockbusters “Avengers: Endgame” and “Avengers: Infinity War,” Paltrow responded in disbelief. “That cant be right. I can’t have been in seven. Is that true?”
Paltrow often goes viral for not remembering things about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, most notably when she admitted that she had no idea she shot scenes as Pepper for “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” When “Captain America: Brave New World” got brought up by Vanity Fair, the actor asked: “What is that?”
“They keep it all very top secret,” Paltrow said of Marvel. “They think they’re the CIA over there, like it’s national secrets. That’s why I didn’t know I was in ‘Spider-Man.’ They never said. There were no signs that said Spider-Man. The script didn’t even say Spider-Man. It’s all a secret.”
Watch Paltrow’s full interview with Vanity Fair in the video below.
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