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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Gwyneth Paltrow

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

News, Celebrity, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Movies, Technology, Tv, Interview, Broadway, Music, Politics, Tv & Film

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

The 1998 film Shakespeare in Love won Gwyneth Paltrow an Academy Award for Best Actress and made her one of Hollywood's most sought-after stars. But fame began to take its toll. In 2008, she sent out the first Goop newsletter, a collection of recommendations for food, clothes and places to visit. Since then Goop has grown in to a successful, wide-ranging lifestyle brand. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist gets together with the actress turned entrepreneur on New York's Long Island.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:04.4

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:07.9

Very excited to bring you my conversation today with no less than Academy Award winner

0:13.3

Gwyneth Paltrow.

0:14.4

Gwyneth doesn't do a ton of interviews like this.

0:17.4

So it was cool to get a chance to sit down for a while inside her Goop store in Sag Harbor,

0:22.5

New York.

0:23.5

Sag Harbor is kind of out there in the Hamptons out at the end of Long Island outside of New

0:28.1

York City.

0:29.1

So Goop is the company she built, started as a newsletter in 2008.

0:34.0

You'll hear her explain its origins.

0:36.4

Just sending out some of the favorite things that she had seen, experienced while traveling,

0:41.7

well on movie sets in different countries around the world and just saying, hey, this thing

0:45.3

is cool.

0:46.3

Check it out, try it if you want to.

0:48.1

Now it's become a huge company that sells a variety of products, including some headline

0:52.8

grabbers like a certain candle that we're going to talk about.

0:57.2

Oh gosh, how can I say this here on the podcast?

0:59.8

Just certain toys that are fun for people to play with, I guess.

1:03.7

We also talked about her sort of stepping away from acting.

1:06.8

I mean, totally on top of the game, she won the Best Actress Academy Award, as you know,

1:12.7

for Shakespeare in love.

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