An Oscar is the biggest prize for film talents. Many actors dream of the coveted golden statue, but when Gwyneth Paltrow won in 1999 for her role as Shakespeare in Love , it was not all that easy.
Paltrow was only 26 and got a lot of attention all at once. However, the pressure became too much for her. She announced this during a recent podcast.
Overwhelming
For example, the now 48-year-old actress says: “ It was all too much for me. Suddenly I was crowned best actress of that year. You would think that would be a great honor, but what I remember most is that after the Oscar ceremony I went into hiding with my parents in Santa Monica. ”
” It was all gigantic intense. In retrospect, I consider it a very strange and lonely period ”.
Competition
That year Paltrow defeated Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett , something that was also unreal to her: ” I actually thought it was quite embarrassing to be nominated “.
”I really didn’t think I would win. But when that happened I didn’t know it all anymore. So much came to me … It was really strange ”.
Something different
The actress is now taking things a lot slower when it comes to acting. She prefers to focus on her own lifestyle brand Goop: ” Goop is really my ‘baby’ and it is going really well, so I want to focus on that now ”.
” I’m not saying I will never act again, but it has to be something that really interests me and at the same time I have to be able to combine it with my family. I no longer feel like being away from home for months to be on a movie set 16 hours a day. ”