Oscar winner for Shakespeare in Love, mum of two and one time head-in-a-box Gwyneth Paltrow talks to us about maternity leave, working with Robert Downey Jr., and having her own Iron Man costume...
Were you happy to be out of the loop for a while before Iron Man?
I was happy in my sweat pants being a mother for three years and I honestly didn’t know if the fire would come back. Then when my son was about six months old I started to feel like the artist was coming out of hibernation.
I wanted to wait until he was at least a year old because I had given my daughter all this time at home. I thought, “If something comes along then where I feel like I’ll be inspired because of the people that I’m working with, I’ll do it.”
That’s when Jon Favreau called me about Iron Man. I want to work with people who are of that calibre because there will be days when I’m not with my children, but perhaps I’ll be bringing home something. I’ll be enriching myself.
What about working with Robert Downey Jr? Was that an added enticement?
The experience of working with Robert was the reason I did the movie. You know, it’s funny, when I agreed to do it there wasn’t a script.
Jon outlined to me what the movie was going to be about, what the metaphors were, who the characters were, what the relationships were going to be… And the fact that Robert was in it. I had always wanted to work with Robert.
He’s one of the most brilliant actors I’ve ever had the good fortune to work with.
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