Gwyneth Paltrow had no idea what an intimacy coordinator was while filming A24’s Marty Supreme.

Gwyneth Paltrow, who is appearing in her first major film since 2019’s Endgame, had no clue what an intimacy coordinator was while filming Josh Safdie’s new A24 film Marty Supreme, which is an upcoming sports comedy drama loosely inspired by the life of ping pong champion Marty Reisman, exploring his journey from a hustler in Manhattan to a champion.

Despite her own direct role in shaping Hollywood’s evolving standards—having been a key voice in the #MeToo movement and helping expose industry-wide abuses — Paltrow admits she was completely unfamiliar with the concept of an intimacy coordinator:

“There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed. I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’”

It’s not just Hollywood’s approach to sex scenes that has changed since Paltrow last took on a major acting role—she herself has been out of the game for a long time. Though she remained a presence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Pepper Potts, she doesn’t consider those appearances to be serious acting.

“With all due respect to Pepper Potts and the Marvel universe, it’s different when you’re reprising an Avengers thing.”

The last film where she fully immersed herself in a dramatic role was Country Strong (2010): “I was laying it all on the line and accessing a kind of vulnerability.”

Director Josh Safdie believes her time away from acting has only enhanced her onscreen presence:

“She’s a movie star. I say that in the cosmic sense. She’s got a gravitational pull that only a camera can depict. I think her absence from acting has lent a vulnerability to her abilities.”

In Marty Supreme, Paltrow plays a woman entangled with Timothée Chalamet’s Marty, and their relationship involves, as she puts it, “a lot—a lot” of onscreen sex. Yet when it came to the set’s intimacy coordinator, Paltrow and Chalamet ultimately decided to keep things more organic:

“We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back … I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but…if someone is like, ‘Okay, and then he’s going to put his hand here [on my shoulder] I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.”

Paltrow has a history of being unaware

Despite being one of the most recognizable actresses of her generation, she has repeatedly demonstrated a surprising lack of awareness about the projects she’s been in, often going viral for forgetting entire movies she’s starred in.

Most famously, she once casually admitted she had no memory of appearing in Spider-Man: Homecoming, despite playing Pepper Potts. In a now-iconic moment on The Chef Show, Jon Favreau had to remind her that she filmed a scene for the movie, to which she responded in complete disbelief: “No… I wasn’t in Spider-Man.” Even when he insisted and recounted details from the shoot, she remained unconvinced. Similarly, she once seemed unaware that Avengers: Endgame and Infinity War were separate films.

Now, with Marty Supreme, her admission that she had no idea what an intimacy coordinator was only adds to the growing list of things she has somehow managed to avoid knowing about in an industry she’s spent most of her life in.

You can read her full interview at Vanity Fair. For more updates on the latest film news, check out our section dedicated to it on our site.