No, Gwyneth Paltrow by no means actually used her Oscar as a doorstop — however she did conceal it away for 25 years

To set the document straight, Gwyneth Paltrow does not use her Oscar as a doorstop.

"That was only for a silly Vogue video," the Marty Supreme actress, who gained in 1999 for her work in Shakespeare in Love, tells host Gerrad Corridor on Leisure Weekly's The Awardist podcast. "They're like, 'Wouldn't it’s enjoyable to make use of your Oscars as a doorstop?' After which after all, as you realize [it became legend]."

That stated, Paltrow has spent many years with sophisticated emotions about her win.

"I feel it was bizarre, as a result of it was such an enormous and pivotal second, and it's a type of issues the place you might be sort of like this individual that individuals are enthusiastic about and are increase," she explains on the podcast. "After which, in a single fell swoop, it's an excessive amount of. You're not an underdog anymore…. The tenor modified. It was only a lot to carry as a 26-year-old."

For the previous quarter century, Paltrow stored her Academy Award on a bookshelf "hiding behind a door," however reveals she just lately moved it to "a bookshelf with different stuff on it."

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"I feel I had, I don't know…. I feel I had a little bit of therapeutic to do, when it comes to how I held that and every little thing that occurred and occurred after it," she says. "It was rather a lot to metabolize. And so it took me, I suppose 25 years to be like, 'Okay, I'm able to put this on the bookshelf."

It additionally took that lengthy to have the ability to watch her efficiency within the 1998 movie that gained her the statuette.

"It's humorous as a result of my husband [Brad Falchuk] was truly watching it possibly six months in the past on TV. It was simply on, and I got here in and I used to be like…. I'm all the time like, 'Oh God, change it.'"

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However this time she mirrored on how "I used to be so younger and I seemed so totally different," Paltrow continues. "It was the primary time I used to be truly in a position to watch it in a very long time. I didn't watch the entire film, however I watched a few scenes and I used to be like, 'You recognize what? This stands the take a look at of time. I'm actually pleased with my work. I'm actually pleased with this movie. It's an ideal screenplay…. I don't know. It was simply sort of like a pleasant second."

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