Gwyneth Paltrow says 'conscious uncoupling' press cost her a movie role

Gwyneth Paltrow has said she lost a film role because of media attention around her 2014 separation from Chris Martin, telling Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang that negative headlines led a distributor to decide “this might be too hot to touch.” Paltrow said the announcement, in which the couple called their split “conscious uncoupling,” provoked “a lot of harsh stuff in the press.” She recounted the distributor’s apparent thinking — “we don’t need the heat” — and added: “I was getting a divorce, and then I got fired off.

It was so awesome.” The couple announced their split in 2014 after 11 years of marriage in a post on Paltrow’s Goop site titled Conscious Uncoupling, saying they hoped to continue to conduct their relationship privately and co-parent. The phrase was widely mocked at the time, which Paltrow told Poehler she believes was a reaction to the idea that separation could be handled more mindfully: “That makes sense to me, like, ‘Oh no, is the inference that I mess someone up?’” Paltrow is now promoting Marty Supreme, in which she plays a fading star involved with Timothée Chalamet’s ping-pong hustler, a role she said marks her return to movies after a 10-year break apart from small Marvel appearances.

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