Gwyneth Paltrow Says Oscar Win Led to ‘Identity Crisis’
“Once I won the Oscar, it put me into a bit of an identity crisis because if you win the biggest prize, like, what are you supposed to do?" Gwyneth Paltrow is looking back on her 1999 Best Actress win for “Shakespeare in Love”: https://t.co/c9nBmf9E6P pic.twitter.com/vOUOMYoHjA
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Gwyneth Paltrow is looking back on her 1999 Best Actress win for “Shakespeare in Love” and the icy reception to her beating out fellow nominees like Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett.
Paltrow recalled being mocked for crying onstage while accepting the award. Her emotions were high in part due to her father Bruce Paltrow being sick with cancer; he later died in 2002.
Her Academy Award win led her to step away from the spotlight as she “hid for three weeks” at her parents’ house.
“I felt a real pivot on that night because I felt like up until that moment everybody was kind of rooting for me in a way. And then when I won, it was like too much, and I could feel a real turn.”
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