• Gwyneth Paltrow isn't certain how Pepper Potts has been preserving busy since Avengers: Endgame.
• The actress says, "I haven't seen any of" the Marvel motion pictures for "story context for what she's doing."
• Paltrow additionally isn't certain if Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark is alive or useless: "I don't know. I can't maintain monitor."

Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't know what Pepper Potts has been doing as of late.

The Shakespeare in Love star shares her ideas on her Marvel Cinematic Universe character's whereabouts in a current dialog with host Gerrad Corridor on The Awardist podcast.

"To be sincere, I believe I might've needed to see all of the Avengers motion pictures to get some story context for what she's doing," Paltrow mentioned of her character, who was first launched in 2008's Iron Man and final appeared in 2019's Avengers: Endgame. "I haven't seen any of them, so I don't know."

After working as a private assistant for Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and subsequently changing into the CEO of his firm Stark Industries, Pepper started a romantic relationship along with her former boss on the finish of Iron Man 2. They remained a pair in all of Paltrow's subsequent MCU appearances — The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity Conflict, and Avengers: Endgame — and welcomed a daughter collectively earlier than Tony died on the conclusion of that final movie.

(She additionally received Extremis superpowers in Iron Man 3 and her personal high-tech swimsuit of armor in Endgame, although neither of these threads has been addressed in subsequent MCU initiatives.)

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Paltrow considers how Pepper has lived on in Tony's absence. "She's been elevating a child and doing spreadsheets," she says. "Possibly she's on some boards and performing some advisory work, and perhaps she's courting."

That final level prompts some confusion. "Or did they create Robert again to life?" she asks of her former costar. "I don't know. I can't maintain monitor."

Downey is returning to the MCU in 2026's Avengers: Doomsday, although he's set to play the villainous Victor Von Doom slightly than the Tony Stark we all know and love. It's doable that Downey's Doom can be a multiversal variant of Tony from an alternate actuality, however the character's background has but to be disclosed by the actor or the filmmakers. And there's no indication that the unique Tony will return in any capability. All that’s to say: we will't maintain monitor, both.

Paltrow can at the moment be seen in Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, a ping-pong dramedy that additionally stars Timothée Chalamet, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma (a.okay.a. Tyler, the Creator), Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher. The movie marks Paltrow's first movie efficiency since Endgame, and her first non-MCU movie since 2015's Mortdecai.

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Marty Supreme is now enjoying in theaters. Take heed to Paltrow's full interview with The Awardist above.

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