Actor thinks derisive response to her description of divorcing Chris Martin led to her being dropped from film
The actor Gwyneth Paltrow has said she was fired from a film due to media interest in her divorce from Chris Martin in 2014.
Speaking on Amy Poehler’s podcast, Good Hang, Paltrow blamed negative headlines surrounding the separation – which the couple called “conscious uncoupling” in their announcement – for her losing a role she had been scheduled to play soon afterwards.
“I was supposed to do a movie at one point, and it was like right after the conscious uncoupling thing with Chris, and there was a lot of harsh stuff in the press,” Paltrow said. “I think the distributor was like, ‘This might be too hot to touch.’”
Paltrow then agreed with Poehler’s suggestion the film company’s thinking was “we don’t need the heat”.
