Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 619th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's

Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is an Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe

Award-winning actress, and a businesswoman who founded and serves as the

CEO of the hugely successful lifestyle company Goop. She first made her name in the 1990s and

2000s in films like 1995-7, 1996s Emma, 1998's Shakespeare and Love, 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, 2001's the Royal Tenenbaum,

2003 Sylvia, 2005's proof, and 2008's Iron Man, when, in the words of the New York Times,

she was for a while the best young American actor in Hollywood. To see her on a screen was a

guarantee of a compelling

performance. Vanity Fair declared that she was not just a movie star, but also an actress to be

reckoned with, and People magazine deemed her the most beautiful woman in the world. Then in 2008,

she started Goop, which initially was a free newsletter, but grew into a cultural phenomenon, independently valued five years ago at $433 million that largely took her away from acting.

This year, though, she made a triumphant return to the big screen opposite Timothy Salome in Josh Safde's dromedy, Marty Supreme, playing a woman

who gave up her career as an actress only to return to acting years later. It's a performance

that is a little meta, to be sure, but it's also generating best-supporting actress Oscar buzz

for her some 27 years after she took home a best actress Oscar for Shakespeare in

Love.

Gwyneth Paltrow.

Over the course of the conversation at the Mayborn Beverly Hills Hotel, the 53-year-old and I

discussed how she wound up a stage and screen actress generally, and the First Lady of Miramax,

Harvey Weinstein's company, specifically.

What led her to work with so many great filmmakers early in their career, including David

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