Following her announcement that she and Chris Martin are ending their decade-long marriage (that shit’s hard, so all my sympathy and best of luck), Gwyneth Paltrow has also declared that she’s going to take a break from acting. TBH, my first response to that was…what acting? She’s not exactly doing five films a year, and Pepper Potts doesn’t exactly gobble up screen time. But still, I get it. Sometimes it is good to simplify and streamline one’s life. Sure, Goop has the luxury of doing that much more comfortably and extravagantly than the rest of us, but there’s no reason to begrudge her whatever forms of self-care she can afford.
“I just finished a movie in January that I was doing at the end of last year in London with Johnny Depp, and then I had two weeks here, and then I did a couple of episodes for ‘Glee’ for the 100th episode,” Paltrow told E! recently.
With that film wrapped, it’s time to “go back to [being] mommy,” said Paltrow, who announced her split from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin on her website Goop on Tuesday. “I have a rule about one movie a year, so I can’t shoot anything for a while, but I’m developing some material and working on the site and raising kids.”
Paltrow, 41, said it’s difficult to manage her movie career now that her children — Apple, 9, and Moses, 7 — are getting older.
“I think it’s different when you have an office job because it’s routine and you know you can do all the stuff in the morning, and then you come home in the evening,” she said. “When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, ‘We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,’ and then you work 14 hours a day, and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom … of course, there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.”
You do you, Goop. [LATimes]