She’s in love with Shakespeare but not so much the trophy.
Gwyneth Paltrow revealed during a “73 Questions” segment with Vogue that her Oscar statuette isn’t just sitting pretty at her home.
In the video, which was filmed this past summer at her Hamptons home, the 51-year-old actress told reporter Joe Sabia that she uses the award as a doorstop.
“What a beautiful Academy Award,” Sabia said, referring to the trophy she won in 1998 for Best Actress for her leading role in “Shakespeare in Love.”
Not missing a beat, Paltrow turned around while walking in her garden and said, “My doorstop. It works perfectly!”
One thing not keeping any of her doors open, is the iconic red velvet double breasted suit designed by Tom Ford for Gucci autumn/winter 1996 that she wore MTV Video Music Awards that same year.
When asked where the suit was, Paltrow responded, “It’s in my closet in California.”
“So you’re not using it to hold any doors around here?” Sabia retorted. Paltrow laughed and responded, “Not currently.”
One person that may not be amused by Paltrow’s Oscar usage is Glenn Close, who believed that she didn’t deserve to win the Academy Award in the first place.
“I honestly feel that to be nominated by your peers is about as good as it gets. And then, I’ve never understood how you could honestly compare performances, you know?” Close said. “I remember the year Gwyneth Paltrow won over that incredible actress who was in ‘Central Station’ and I thought, ‘What?’ It doesn’t make sense,” Close told ABC in 1999, referring to Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated for her powerful performance in “Central Station.
“So I think who wins has a lot of things to do with how things have been, you know, whether it has traction or whatever,” Close continued. “Publicity, how much money did they have to put it out in front of everybody’s sight. I have to be philosophical about it, if I was upset about it.”
Close isn’t the only one that struggled after Paltrow won the statuette. The “Avengers” star admitted that she lost her after winning Hollywood’s “biggest prize.”
“I just wanted to be successful and to be well-regarded. I was on this really fast track and it all happened so quickly,” she said on an interview with the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “For somebody like me, who I think I was working through a lot of the harder parts of my growing up through achieving success.”
“Once I won the Oscar, it put me into a little bit of an identity crisis, because if you win the biggest prize, like what are you supposed to do?” she continued. “And where are you supposed to go? It was hard, like, the amount of attention that you receive on a night like that and the weeks following is so disorienting and, frankly, really unhealthy. 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.”