Gwyneth Paltrow on 'Country Strong': 'This Is the Best Job I've Ever Done'

Gwyneth Paltrow on 'Country Strong': 'This Is the Best Job I've Ever Done'

 
Gwyneth Paltrow honored with star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hollywood, CA.December 13, 2010. (Bauer Griffin)

Gwyneth Paltrow put her heart and soul into her flick Country Strong, and even she thinks it shows through on the big screen. The actress says she normally doesn't like watching her own movies, but was surprisingly impressed the flick when she watched it recently.

She said: “Last night, when I was watching the film, I thought, ‘This is the best job I’ve ever done.’ Normally I can’t stand to see myself but with this film, I felt like it all came together, all that hard work and putting myself in such an uncomfortable position where I felt so scared of how I was going to do it. I’m happy with how it turned out.”

Gwyneth – who has children Apple, six, and Moses, four, with husband Chris Martin – also admitted she had to do more preparation for this role than any other she has played in her career.

She added in an interview with InStyle magazine: “I’ve never prepared for anything more in my life. It was a big responsibility. There was studying with an accent coach, learning to play guitar and, of course, the singing. My voice didn’t have any power and I wanted to try to sing properly. I was so nervous about performing live scenes in the film, that’s so foreign to me. Learning to play guitar was so hard! Luckily, my family tolerated me while I was practicing. I was pretty bad.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Gwyneth Paltrow Ready For A Move To Nashville

Gwyneth Paltrow Ready For A Move To Nashville

Gwyneth Paltrow may just be ready to make the leap back across the pond. She currently resides in London with her husband, Chris Martin, and their two kids, but after filming Country Strong in Nashville, she fell in love with the way of life there.

Gwyneth said,

“I loved it in Nashville. There’s something about it here – it is so relaxing and everybody is so kind and I just loved it. Would I move here? Listen, I would love it.
“London is great but I miss America. Nowadays, I feel like we’re citizens of everywhere.”

She says that Nashville is full of undiscovered amazing spots!

“I was 18 when I started doing films and travelling and it was so lonely. Exploring became this whole other thing I could do when I was missing my home and finding great spots and museums and clothing shops made me feel less lonely.

“And I’m a very curious person. But let’s face it, a lot of my search was food-driven! Nashville was so exciting to explore when we weren’t filming because of all the hidden gems.”

For some reason, I don’t imagine Gwyneth settling down in Nashville anytime soon. She definitely seems like more of a London girl to me. I think Gwyneth is used to a pretty glamorous lifestyle.

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Gwyneth Paltrow Could Score Millions for Record Deal

Gwyneth Paltrow Could Score Millions for Record Deal

It looks like Paltrow is making a play at the country pop world.

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Gwyneth Paltrow had a whirlwind red carpet season. The Academy Award-winning actress performed at both the Grammys and the Oscars, and just recently reprised her much-discussed role on Glee. Now reports are circulating that Paltrow, 38, is on the cusp of inking a major record deal—one that could prove quite lucrative for the willowy star.

On Wednesday, it was rumored that Paltrow had signed with Atlantic Records for about $900,000. The performer's rep dismissed the reports, telling People, "There is no deal yet."

A source told the New York Post that Gwyneth's sound is "country pop"—interesting, considering Paltrow has expressed her desire to work with Jay-Z on any future musical projects. Will Jay go country, too?

 

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Gwyneth Paltrow Reportedly Close to Record Deal

Gwyneth Paltrow Reportedly Close to Record Deal

 

Singers Cee Lo Green (L) and Gwyneth Paltrow perform onstage during The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on February 13, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

Did Gwyneth Paltrow's singing get you to actually watch Country Strong? Have her Glee cameos left you wanting to hear more? Then good news for you!

Gwyneth is reportedly on the verge of signing a recording deal with Atlantic Records that would see her release a collection of country pop songs on the heels of her starring role in Country Strong. An anonymous source spoke with New York Post's Page Six.

"Gwyneth's agents have been talking to a number of labels about landing her a substantial record deal," the source said. "Those who have heard the music say it's country pop. Many labels would be reluctant to give a deal to a star whose first priority is film, but in recent weeks there have been discussions with Atlantic. Gwyneth is a very different name for Atlantic, and one who brings a lot of recognition."

Gwyneth has previously said she'd love to work with Jay-Z sometime, so maybe we'll have that collaboration to look forward to.

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Britney Spears Was Inspiration For Gwyneth Paltrow For ‘Country Strong’

 Britney Spears Was Inspiration For Gwyneth Paltrow For ‘Country Strong’

Something tells me Britney Spears will take this story about as well as Lindsay Lohan took Gwyneth Paltrow’s mocking of her on ‘Glee.’ Anyway, according to Fox News’ Pop Tarts, Gwyneth’s character was partly inspired by Britney’s very public problems for Gwyneth’s character’s comeback in her new movie, ‘Country Strong.’

“You see a lot of these themes in real life, while I was writing the script a lot of those things that were happening with Britney Spears were very public,” writer/director Shana Feste revealed to FOX411’s Pop Tarts. “She was shaving her head, and I saw how fixated we are as a society in building people up to see their downfall and then the pleasure we take in building them up again.

Gwyneth herself said that she turned to her friend, singer Beyonce, for advice about performing.

“I picked the brains of my girl singer friends more.  I obsessively watched Beyonce perform, she is ‘it’ in terms of a performer – if I could just get a little bit of that abandon she has on stage, that’s what I was really focusing on,” Paltrow explained.

And actually, Gwyneth’s public persona is so different from Britney’s that the film studio president initially balked at the thought of Gwyneth taking the part!

“He thought everyone was so crazy because I was so wrong,” she said. ‘When you think ‘country superstar drink addict’ maybe you don’t think of me, but it’s in there… I haven’t been macrobiotic for a long time now, drinking country singer is much closer to the real me!”

OK, Gwyneth. Something tells me there’s a BIG difference between eating a macrobiotic diet and alcoholism- LOL.

Are you looking forward to seeing Gwyneth in ‘Country Strong‘?

Gwyneth Paltrow Really Got Into Her ‘Country Strong’ Character

 Gwyneth Paltrow Really Got Into Her ‘Country Strong’ Character

Gwyneth Paltrow sounds like she was pretty fun to work with on the set of ‘Country Strong’! According to US Weekly, the actress really got into character during filming, by basically being drunk all the time!

Gwyneth Paltrow appeared on the Rachael Ray show and said;

“You just get really drunk all the time. Which is awesome!”
“At least I did anyway, it’s not very professional,”
“There’s a Bloody Mary at 10 a.m. and keep it going all day!”

Wow, she’s a better woman that I am to be able to do that and work! Gwyneth Paltrow certainly has been making the publicity rounds, trying to drum up buzz for this movie, and I think its working! It definitely is on my wish list of movies to see now. Country Strong opens this weekend, do you think you’ll go see it?

Gwyneth Paltrow On The Cover Of Good Housekeeping

 Gwyneth Paltrow On The Cover Of Good Housekeeping

Gwyneth Paltrow has been making the publicity rounds to help promote her new movie, Country Strong, and the GOOP author opens up in the February issue of Good Housekeeping. In the issue the actress/singer opens up about her famous husband, suffering through postpartum depression, and learning to play an instrument for her latest movie.

On Why She’s Seldom Photographed with Husband

“If I’m looking grumpy in public or if Chris and I leave a restaurant separately, it’s only because we don’t want to encourage photographers.”

About her Husband Chris Martin

“I definitely have to coax things out of him when we talk. You know, he’s British, so it’s a different lexicon totally. But you have to communicate. Otherwise there’s no relationship.”

“I can depend on him. He makes me laugh. He’s really appreciative of me. You know, he makes me feel special.”

“It’s weird, because we’re famous people, but I think our values are primarily family-oriented. We’re not swept up in the whole thing of it.”

On Her Experience with Postpartum Depression after Moses Was Born

“I felt like a zombie. I couldn’t access my heart. I couldn’t access my emotions. I couldn’t connect. It was terrible, it was the exact opposite of what had happened when Apple was born. With her, I was on cloud nine. I couldn’t believe it wasn’t the same. I just thought it meant I was a terrible mother and a terrible person.”

“About four months into it, Chris came to me and said, ‘Something’s wrong. Something’s wrong.’ I kept saying, ‘No, no, I’m fine.’ But Chris identified it, and that sort of burst the bubble.”

 “The hardest part for me was acknowledging the problem. I thought postpartum depression meant you were sobbing every single day and incapable of looking after a child. But there are different shades of it and depths of it, which is why I think it’s so important for women to talk about it. It was a trying time. I felt like a failure.”

On Learning to Play Guitar for Country Strong

“It was so much fun to pick up a new skill. I can be a perfectionist, so I really practiced. And between Chris’s help and the director needing me to be prepared, I was totally ready when the time came.”

You can read more of Gwyneth’s interview with Good Housekeeping in the February issue.

Gwyneth Paltrow Tells Rachael Ray: “Tom Cruise Was An Amazing Kisser”

 Gwyneth Paltrow Tells Rachael Ray: “Tom Cruise Was An Amazing Kisser”

Gwyneth Paltrow is out promoting her new flick “Country Strong” and took some time to sit down with Rachael Ray to dish about her children, Oscars, and her best movie co-star kiss.
On her which of her male co-stars is the best kisser:

I did a little cameo once at the beginning of “Austin Powers 3” I think it was, and I got to make out with Tom Cruise. He was an amazing kisser!

She shares what her kids, Moses and Apple, got for Christmas:

“A lot of Ben 10 for my son, a lot of Transformers, puzzles, Power Rangers. My daughter is all Calico Critters. Do you know these things? They’re like these little family of animals and they have a little family of hedgehogs, there’s a family of rabbits. You know, there’s all this stuff that comes with it. She’s obsessed with them! I have to say, my son is like finding the iPhone and finding Mario Brothers on the iPhone and I’m just worried that he’s going to be like a gamer and I’ll never get him to talk to me!”

On her kids’ personalities:

My son is really shy, but he sings all day long. But really quietly. And my daughter, she’s sort of more chatty and she’s really funny and she’s a great story teller. And they’re both very musical, they love music. They’re really into pop music, like top 40. They’re always singing Dynamite, all the time!

Rachael Ray asks her if she’d consider putting out an album and singing at the Oscars:

The answer is, I really don’t know. I’ve had such an incredible time doing this singing and it’s been so great, I don’t know how I would do it. I am definitely thinking about it, but I haven’t saddled on how I would do it.

RR: Would you be comfortable doing a big performance at the Oscars?

Maybe with some Xanax! I’ve learned never to say never at this point in my career. If you told me that I would’ve been playing the Country Music Awards, I would have said never.

You can catch the full interview when the show airs this Friday!

Gwyneth Paltrow Dishes On Dating Brad Pitt And Ben Affleck

 Gwyneth Paltrow Dishes On Dating Brad Pitt And Ben Affleck

‘Country Strong‘ star Gwyneth Paltrow did a special for the E! channel, and in it she talked about her high-profile romances with Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck. (Check out the pictures of Gwyneth with Brad and Ben alone: brings back memories!)

“It was strange to be part of a public couple,” she says in the interview.

I bet that’s at least part of the reason why we very rarely see Gwyneth with her husband, Chris Martin.
Gwyneth also said it wasn’t as easy making it in Hollywood as some people may think, despite being the daughter of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner.

“We could have paid for everything and had a spoiled kid,” mother Danner says. “[But] I think it’s really important for people to work hard.”

Paltrow admits: “I would say ‘Dad, I can’t go out to dinner, I have no money,’ and he would say ‘you’re welcome to come over here and eat at our house anytime, but I’m not giving you money for your social life.’”

That must be at least partly why Gwyneth is so grounded .

Gwyneth Paltrow Opens Up About ‘Hollywood Walk Of Fame’ Star

 

 Gwyneth Paltrow Opens Up About ‘Hollywood Walk Of Fame’ Star

Last night, INO posted pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow receiving her ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’ star. It’s about time the actress claimed her spot!! This morning we finally received a quote of what she said during her acceptance speech.

“I’m proud my grandchildren can one day come and see my name on the sidewalk. “I think I am going to get in the car and burst into tears. It just means so much to me to see all the people that I really love, and who have been supportive of me forever. I feel so honored I can’t believe it. “This city is so much a part of my heart and soul. I don’t think I would be here were it not for my family and friends.”

Aw – that’s nice to hear. I’m sure her children don’t really understand how special a ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’ star really is, but in a few years they will. (imnotobsessed)

Gwyneth Paltrow's Big Night at the CMA Awards

 Gwyneth Paltrow's Big Night at the CMA Awards

Gearing up for her big Country Music Awards debut, Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted at the 2010 CMA Awards in Nashville, TN on Wednesday (November 10).

The actress turned country singer looked fabulous in Atelier Versace as she made her way through the press area before heading inside the Bridgestone Arena.


Of her first-ever CMA performance, Gywn told a Chicago radio station, "Ah, yes ... I can't use the language that I want to use on the radio, but yes (I'm scared).”

"If I don't faint -- if I get through it -- it'll be okay. Most people start in a bar .. then a bigger bar, then a theater. You're not supposed to just start at the CMAs!"

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Enjoy the pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow at the CMA Awards (November 10).

Gwyneth Paltrow Premieres "Country Strong"

 Gwyneth Paltrow Premieres "Country Strong"

Stepping out to promote her latest work, Gwyneth Paltrow was on-hand for the "Country Strong" premiere at Regal Green Hills in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday (November 8).

Making the red carpet stop well ahead of the film's slated January 7th release date, the outing comes just two days before Miss Paltrow is scheduled to take the stage as a performer at the 44th annual CMA Awards.

As for "Country Strong," Gwyneth's co-star Tim McGraw recently spoke with OK! about his experience filming alongside the Oscar winning actress.


In attendance at the premiere with wife Faith Hill, he said, "The biggest challenge was to be on the screen with Gwyneth. You just want to play to the level [of] the person you're playing against. It certainly made me a better actor, being there with her. Everybody around her rises when she's in a scene."

Also mentioning Paltrow's singing abilities, McGraw dished, "She's a great country singer, because when it came out, it was pure honesty. You know, the thing about country music, it's such an honest [type of] music."

Other stars turning up for the Nashville premiere of "Country Strong" included Leighton Meester, James Marsden, Tobey Maguire, Martina McBride and Sara Evans.

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Enjoy the pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Leighton Meester at the Nashville premiere of "Country Strong" (November 8).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gwyneth Paltrow Braves The Heat To Film Outdoors

Did you know Gwyneth Paltrow has a new TV show? I didn't, but according to the information that came with these pictures, Gwyneth was filming a segment for a TV show before running some errands.

I first looked at these pictures and wondered how in the world Gwyneth managed to look so cool and polished in pants and a blazer in this heat, but that's the magic of getting ready to go on camera :)

Maybe Gwyneth was filming a segment for GOOP. It looks like she's trying to build a brand like Martha Stewart or Rachael Ray. Do you like seeing Gwyneth as a personality or prefer she just stick to acting?

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Gwyneth Paltrow: Losing Post-Baby Weight is a Tough Task

She always looks fit and fine, but Gwyneth Paltrow made it clear that her lean figure doesn't come without hard work.

During an interview with the Press Association, the "Iron Man" actress said that, following son Moses' birth in 2006, getting her svelte physique was "by far the hardest thing I have ever done."

"After my first pregnancy, the weight had come off a little bit better but after the second one it was really stubborn. It was really hanging on. It was not easy," Paltrow tells. "But I really was seeing results so it motivated me to just work through it."

With workouts being a key element to slimming down, Gwyneth continued, "Every woman can make time – every woman – and you can do it with your baby in the room. There've been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place." (Celebrity Gossip)

Madonna Falls Out with “Jealous” Gwyneth Paltrow

Lifestyles of the rich and bitchy!

Us Weekly is reporting that Madonna, 51, and Gwyneth Paltrow, 37, are no longer BFFs.

An insider says, “They don’t speak. I can’t tell you exactly why they had the falling out, but Gwyneth can be jealous and competitive.”

Reps for Madonna rep deny the “breakup,” but a source says things went downhill slowly for the duo after Madonna split from Guy Ritchie in 2008, leaving “Gwyneth and Madonna with less in common.”

Paltrow hinted at a new feud in May’s British Vogue: “I’m having a situation right now with a friend where I’m feeling pretty angry.”

Apparently the friends that fake British accents together do not stick together.