Where does Gwyneth Paltrow keep her Oscar? Well, not outside as a doorstop.
In a recent video for Vogue’s “73 Questions” series, Paltrow’s Academy Award is seen propping open a door outside her Hamptons home.
“What a beautiful Academy Award,” interviewer Joe Sabia said in the video, to which Paltrow replied, “My doorstop. It works perfectly!”
Several outlets reported Gwyneth Paltrow’s remark about her Oscar as a fact, with Entertainment Weekly and Pvnew writing as their headlines, “Gwyneth Paltrow Uses Her Oscar as a Doorstop: ‘It Works Perfectly!'”
“Yes, Gwyneth Paltrow Really Uses Her Oscar Trophy as a Doorstop,” the Wrap’s headline reads.
A representative for Gwyneth Paltrow told PvNew “of course, it’s a joke,” citing an interview with the New York Times in which the actor mentions she keeps her Academy Award in her house in Amagansett, New York.
Paltrow won the Academy Award in 1999 for her performance as Viola De Lesseps in “Shakespeare in Love.” Back in May, Paltrow said on an episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that her best actress Oscar win for “Shakespeare in Love” led to an unhealthy identity crisis.
“once I won the Oscar, it put me into a bit of an identity crisis, because if you win the biggest prize, like what are you supposed to do? And where are you supposed to go?” Paltrow said. “It was hard the amount of attention that you receive on a night like that and the weeks following, it’s so disorienting. And frankly, really unhealthy. I was like, ‘This is crazy. I don’t know what to do, I don’t know which way is up.’ It was a lot. Not that I would give it back or anything, it was an amazing experience, but it kind of called a lot of things into question for me.”
