Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that one of her most memeable moments — the now-infamous “conscious uncoupling” AKA her Goopified way of saying she and Chris Martin were getting a divorce — may have actually cost her a film role.
Back in 2014, when Paltrow and the Coldplay frontman announced they were ending their marriage after just over a decade together, they introduced the world to the phrase “conscious uncoupling” and the internet absolutely lost its mind.
Now, the toxic wellness final boss has revealed on Amy Poehler‘s Good Hang podcast that the backlash became so intense that it actually impacted her career, including losing out on a movie role.
“I was meant to do a movie and it was right after the conscious uncoupling thing with Chris. The distributor was like, this might be too hot to touch,” she shared with the Parks and Recreation mastermind.
“That was great because I was getting a divorce and then I got fired, that was so awesome.”
She went on to say that she understood why the phrase rubbed people the wrong way, especially those who’d been through messy breakups, rather than the relatively amicable split she and Chris experienced.
“Say you’d had a really nasty divorce or your parents had a nasty divorce and then you hear, it doesn’t have to be done this way,” she said.
“Is the inference that I messed someone up? I do understand why it was so personal for people. You only see that kind of reaction when it’s personal. When we’re hurt, we say things we don’t mean. We get angry, we respond. That’s humanity.”
So which movie did she ~maybe~ get booted from?
She didn’t provide any clues, so there’s no way of knowing. Especially given Paltrow’s film choices range from top notch flicks like Shakespeare in Love (for which she won an Oscar) to absolute clunkers like Shallow Hal.
Then there are the flicks that she doesn’t even remember starring in, such as Spider-Man: Homecoming. So whatever this film is, the director should just be grateful that it was significant enough to her that she’s still using it as an anecdote all these years on.
Anywho, catch the full interview below:
