Paltrow acknowledges her role as a forerunner with Goop, paving the way for others.
Paltrow returns to film in Marty Supreme with Timothée Chalamet, her first major role in 15 years.
Gwyneth Paltrow says she does not feel threatened by the Duchess of Sussex’s “attempt” to become a lifestyle guru.
Viewers have noted the similarities between Meghan’s new venture, selling products promoted in her With Love, Meghan series, and Paltrow’s Goop empire.
The two women are neighbours in Montecito, California, but are not friends.
“I don’t know Meghan and Harry,” Paltrow said. “I mean, I’ve met Meghan, who seems really lovely, but I don’t know her at all.
“Maybe I’ll try to get through their security detail and bring them a pie,” Paltrow told Vanity Fair.
With Love, Meghan’s second series will be released in autumn. Photo / Getty Images
The Hollywood actor said she welcomed Meghan promoting herself as a lifestyle expert. “I was raised to see other women as friends, not foes. I think there’s always more than enough to go around.
“Everybody deserves an attempt at everything that they want to try.”
But Paltrow, 52, who launched Goop as a newsletter in 2008 and now runs the company as its chief executive, acknowledged that she was the forerunner.
She said: “I’m thinking it for the first time, but it might just be that my role is to pave the way. By some instinct or curiosity or desire, I go somewhere and I hack through the path and I get the scratches of hacking through, but I make space for other people then to do it.”
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in episode two of “With Love, Meghan,” now streaming on Netflix. Photo / Jenna Peffley/Netflix
At one point in the interview, Paltrow spotted a paparazzi drone hovering high above. When the interviewer said it could be there for the Sussexes, or for fellow Montecito resident Oprah Winfrey, Paltrow joked: “It’s three for the price of one up here.”
Both women love hosting guests, but Paltrow has a strict cut-off. A friend gave her a cushion embroidered with her dinner party policy: “Please leave by 9.”
Dinner begins at 6pm or 6.30pm and Paltrow explained that guests will be “enthralled” in conversation before realising: “Oh my god, hurry! It’s 8.49!”
With Love, Meghan launched earlier this month and was panned by critics for its content, which included a children’s party with no child guests, and arranging fruit and vegetable platters to resemble a rainbow.
Hours after its release, Meghan officially launched her As Ever brand, which offers products including jam, pancake mix, and the dried flower sprinkles which she adds to everything from shortbread biscuits to fried eggs on toast.
A second series, filmed back-to-back with the first, is due to air on Netflix this autumn.
Paltrow is returning to the screen this year in Marty Supreme, her first major film role in 15 years. Inspired by the story of a real-life ping-pong champion, Marty Reisman, it co-stars Timothée Chalamet.
Gwyneth Paltrow, director James Mangold, Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, and Edward Norton participate in 'A Complete Unknown'. Photo / Getty Images
“We have sex a lot in this movie. There’s a lot – a lot,” Paltrow said of her on-screen relationship with Chalamet, 29.
An intimacy coordinator was employed on set but the actor said she had little need for one, having made many films in her early career before such safeguards existed.
“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,’ I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that,” Paltrow said.
As for how she felt during intimate scenes with Chalamet, who is 23 years her junior, she added “I was like, ‘Okay, great. I’m 109 years old. You’re 14.’”
