Gwyneth Paltrow Spills on Leaving Acting

Dec 10, 2020 | 6:11 AM

Gwyneth Paltrow is opening up about why she has left acting. Speaking to SiriusXM‘s Bruce Bozzi on Quarantined With Bruce, she said: “I think that when you hit the bullseye, when you’re 26 years old and you’re a metrics driven person who, frankly, doesn’t love acting that much as it turns out. I sort of felt like, well, now who am I supposed to be? Like, what am I, what am I driving towards?”

She continued, “Part of the shine of acting wore off, you know, being in such intense public scrutiny, being a kid who’s like living every breakup on every headline, like being criticized for everything you do, say and wear.”

The 48-year-old Paltrow added: “So if you compound those things with the fact that like, you know, to be totally candid, I had a really rough boss for most of my movie career at Miramax,” a reference to convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.

Paltrow was the most high-profile woman who spoke out about Weinstein, saying he sexually harassed her, and helping bring down the Hollywood kingpin and ultimately put him behind bars.