Gwyneth Paltrow on Timothée Chalamet Sex Scenes, Intimacy Coordinators

Gwyneth Paltrow spoke to Vanity Fair as a part of a new cover story and pulled again the curtain a bit on her massive return to appearing later this 12 months in Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme.” The A24 movie stars Timothée Chalamet as a ping pong protégé competing abroad. Paltrow revealed for the primary time she is starring because the spouse of a rival skilled who falls into mattress with Chalamet’s star.

“This woman who is married to someone who is in the Ping-Pong mafia, as it were,” Paltrow defined. “They meet and she’s had a pretty tough life, and I think he breathes life back into her, but it’s kind of transactional for them both.” 

“Marty Supreme” went viral throughout manufacturing after set paparazzi took photographs of Chalamet and Paltrow making out whereas filming a scene. Based on Paltrow, the 2 co-stars shall be getting much more sizzling and heavy within the film.

“I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie,” Paltrow teased. “There’s a lot—a lot.”

Filming intercourse scenes with Chalamet launched Paltrow to an intimacy coordinator for the primary time, though she didn’t seem to wish one after many years in Hollywood.

“There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed,” Paltrow stated, noting that when “Marty Supreme’s” intimacy coordinator requested her if she’d be snug with a specific transfer through the filming of an intimate scene “I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’ ”

“We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back,’ ” Paltrow added of not counting on an intimacy coordinator with Chalamet. “I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but…if someone is like, ‘Okay, and then he’s going to put his hand here,’  I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.”

Paltrow joked that she minimize proper to the chase earlier than filming intercourse scenes with Chalamet: “I was like, ‘Okay, great. I’m 109 years old. You’re 14.’ ”

The Oscar winner went on to confer with Chalamet as “a thinking man’s sex symbol,” including to Vanity Fair: “He’s just a very polite, properly raised, I was going to say kid. He’s a man who takes his work really seriously and is a fun partner.”

Whereas Paltrow has performed Pepper Potts in a number of Marvel films and had a supporting position on the Netflix collection “The Politician,” she’s viewing “Marty Supreme” as her first critical appearing position since 2010’s “Country Strong.” By critical, she signifies that she’s “laying it all on the line and accessing a kind of vulnerability” that her position within the Marvel Cinematic Universe maybe lacked (“it’s different when you’re reprising an ‘Avengers’ thing,” she stated).

Whether or not or not Paltrow might nonetheless pull off a susceptible position fueled her self doubt, however she fortunately had a well-known buddy who was additionally stepping again in entrance of the digicam after greater than a decade, and who inspired her. That may be Cameron Diaz, who ended an 11-year appearing hiatus by starring within the Netflix film “Back in Action” earlier this 12 months.

“Cameron Diaz is one of my best friends, sorry to name-drop,” Paltrow stated, including that Diaz inspired her to “think about the richness and the deepening of your life” as she returned to critical appearing. “That’s all material…I’ve gone through a lot since the last time I was onscreen in a real way.”

“She’s a movie star. I say that in the cosmic sense. She’s got a gravitational pull that only a camera can depict,” Paltrow’s “Marty Supreme” director Josh Safdie stated. “I think her absence from acting has lent a vulnerability to her abilities.”

A24 is about to launch “Marty Supreme” in theaters on Dec. 25. Head over to Vanity Fair’s website to learn Paltrow’s cowl story in its entirety.