Goop CEO Paltrow Put Her Acting Career On Back-Burner In Favor Of Becoming An Entrepreneur
Goop CEO Paltrow Put Her Acting Career On Back-Burner In Favor Of Becoming An Entrepreneur
Updated on July 22, 2022 12:45 PM by Ella Bina
Gwyneth Paltrow, 49, is not longing to jump back into her acting career. In an exclusive clip from the Goop CEO's interview on Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist, Paltrow, opens up about putting acting on the back burner in favor of becoming an entrepreneur.
Paltrow said, "I really don't miss it all. I think I'm so lucky that I got to do it, and I'm sure I still will at some point."
The Oscar winner continued, "The team is always trying to get me to do a movie, but I really love what I do and I love how immediate it is and how … we're able to create a product out of thin air that we believe in so much."
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Paltrow says the experience of developing products for her lifestyle brand Goop is "so powerful." Paltrow says she doesn't "daydream about the movie business at all." However, The Politician alum does plan to return to her acting roots to fulfill a promise to her mother, Blythe Danner.
She says, "I did promise my mother at some point before I die, I told her I would go and do a play so … I'm gonna deliver on that promise at some point." Paltrow echoed similar sentiments in 2019 about transitioning away from acting during a conversation with the founder and CEO of Kargo, Harry Kargman, for a panel at Advertising Week New York.
She shared of creating Goop, "I would not say I am that passionate about it anymore. I've had a lot of good luck and a lot of hard work, that led to a good film career. At a certain point, I thought that it was not what I wanted to do. So I did a little pivot."
Then, in an interview with SiriusXM's Quarantined with Bruce in 2020, the actress revealed that she knew she wouldn't act forever at the age of 26.
Paltrow explained that after her 1999 Oscar win for Shakespeare in Love, she realized she didn't "love acting that much as it turns out."
Paltrow said at the time, "I sort of felt like, well, now who am I supposed to be?" adding, "Like, what am I, what am I driving towards?" She explained that "part of the shine of acting wore off" due to the "intense public scrutiny" of being a young actress in Hollywood.
Paltrow continued, "Being a kid who's living every breakup on every headline, being criticized for everything you do say and wear.
She added, "And also, it's so transitory, you're always all over. It's hard to plant roots. I'm such a homebody, you know me, I like to be with my old friends and cook and squeeze my kids. I don't want to be alone in a hotel room in Budapest for six weeks.
Like, it's just not who I am." Gwyneth Paltrow's full interview on Sunday TODAY with Geist airs Sunday at 8 a.m. ET on NBC.