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"The 34-year-old is now looking to reclaim her leading lady status, with a major silver screen role in Iron Man, where she stars as the girlfriend of a superhero played by Robert Downey Jr.
She told W magazine: "It's been a long time since I've done a big part in a movie, and I'm very excited."
"Robert called me and said, 'Don't you want to be in a movie that people see?' And he's right."
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showb...comeback+with+a+glamorous+new+look/article.do
http://www.style.com/w/feat_story/080807/full_page.html
The second, the comic book-inspired action flick Iron Man, is due out in the spring. Paltrow is Pepper Potts, the secretary-turned-love interest of the superhero title character (Robert Downey Jr.).
When the first photos of the actress on crutches appeared earlier this summer, most people assumed that Paltrow had injured her knee on the Iron Man set, perhaps during some sort of intense stunt sequence. But in truth, she explains, "I bashed it on some furniture." On Memorial Day the family was visiting Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw ("Uncle Morty and Aunt Katie," as she calls them) in Malibu. "The kids were sitting on stools with legs that sort of protracted out. I turned to do something and I just whacked it," she says, grimacing slightly.
Paltrow had unknowingly fractured her tibial plateau. But she didn't see a doctor for three weeks, during which time she continued working on Iron Man. "It was only after I was doing a scene that involved running when I said to the director, 'Uh, you know, I think I did something to my knee.' " The doctor ordered her to stop walking on it and scheduled her for surgery. Fortunately, she had only a few days' worth of shooting left on Iron Man. "I filmed the rest sitting down," she says. "And one scene I did standing on one leg."
"She was a super trouper," says Downey. "She was like, 'Yeah, it's a little uncomfortable.' Then we hear her X-ray looked like a broken egg."
Not long ago, a big-budget popcorn movie like Iron Man would have been the last place you'd expect to see Paltrow. But she says she was won over by the people involved—notably Favreau and Downey—and the desire to have some fun. "Robert called me and he said, 'This is gonna be fun, and this is gonna be good.' And then he said to me, 'Don't you want to be in a movie that people see?' And I was like, Whoa! What would that feel like?" she recalls, chuckling. "And he's right. Moviemaking is not supposed to be a *********ory exercise; it's supposed to be shared by other people."
Whether the multiplex masses will pay to see Paltrow as a superhero's leading lady, however, remains to be seen. For all her acting ability and natural glamour, she has never exuded the easy likability of Cameron Diaz or Reese Witherspoon. There's nothing goofy or girl-next-door about her. She attended the poshest of posh Manhattan private schools; she's a champion of gloomy art-house fare (think Sylvia); she's talked in the past, at length, about her devotion to all things detoxed and macrobiotic; and she's an ardent Anglophile who, for the past few years, has spent the preponderance of her time in Martin's native England.
She told W magazine: "It's been a long time since I've done a big part in a movie, and I'm very excited."
"Robert called me and said, 'Don't you want to be in a movie that people see?' And he's right."
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showb...comeback+with+a+glamorous+new+look/article.do
http://www.style.com/w/feat_story/080807/full_page.html
The second, the comic book-inspired action flick Iron Man, is due out in the spring. Paltrow is Pepper Potts, the secretary-turned-love interest of the superhero title character (Robert Downey Jr.).
When the first photos of the actress on crutches appeared earlier this summer, most people assumed that Paltrow had injured her knee on the Iron Man set, perhaps during some sort of intense stunt sequence. But in truth, she explains, "I bashed it on some furniture." On Memorial Day the family was visiting Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw ("Uncle Morty and Aunt Katie," as she calls them) in Malibu. "The kids were sitting on stools with legs that sort of protracted out. I turned to do something and I just whacked it," she says, grimacing slightly.
Paltrow had unknowingly fractured her tibial plateau. But she didn't see a doctor for three weeks, during which time she continued working on Iron Man. "It was only after I was doing a scene that involved running when I said to the director, 'Uh, you know, I think I did something to my knee.' " The doctor ordered her to stop walking on it and scheduled her for surgery. Fortunately, she had only a few days' worth of shooting left on Iron Man. "I filmed the rest sitting down," she says. "And one scene I did standing on one leg."
"She was a super trouper," says Downey. "She was like, 'Yeah, it's a little uncomfortable.' Then we hear her X-ray looked like a broken egg."
Not long ago, a big-budget popcorn movie like Iron Man would have been the last place you'd expect to see Paltrow. But she says she was won over by the people involved—notably Favreau and Downey—and the desire to have some fun. "Robert called me and he said, 'This is gonna be fun, and this is gonna be good.' And then he said to me, 'Don't you want to be in a movie that people see?' And I was like, Whoa! What would that feel like?" she recalls, chuckling. "And he's right. Moviemaking is not supposed to be a *********ory exercise; it's supposed to be shared by other people."
Whether the multiplex masses will pay to see Paltrow as a superhero's leading lady, however, remains to be seen. For all her acting ability and natural glamour, she has never exuded the easy likability of Cameron Diaz or Reese Witherspoon. There's nothing goofy or girl-next-door about her. She attended the poshest of posh Manhattan private schools; she's a champion of gloomy art-house fare (think Sylvia); she's talked in the past, at length, about her devotion to all things detoxed and macrobiotic; and she's an ardent Anglophile who, for the past few years, has spent the preponderance of her time in Martin's native England.
...and she has a really long neck 
(which is a good thing imo, its not too long...and it a billion times better than having no neck 
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