Gwyneth Paltrow displays on weepy Oscar speech

Gwyneth Paltrow gave undoubtedly one of many worst speeches in Oscar historical past after her Shakespeare in Love win.

A whole lot of Academy Award winners get weepy, sentimental and downright ugly of their speeches. One such Oscar winner is Gwyneth Paltrow, who gave an over-the-top speech that started humbly sufficient earlier than it shortly changed into a sobfest that’s usually cited as one of many cringiest acceptance speeches ever.

On the Name Her Daddy podcast, Gwyneth Paltrow discussed each the origins of her feelings and the backlash she confronted after profitable Greatest Actress for Shakespeare in Love. “I cried and folks had been so imply about it and I simply thought, ‘Wow there’s this massive vitality shift that’s taking place. I feel I’m going to need to be taught to be much less openhearted and rather more protecting of myself and filter individuals out higher.’…I keep in mind I used to be working in England…and I keep in mind the British press being so horrible to me as a result of I cried. They usually didn’t essentially know that my father was dying of most cancers.” Maybe they had been pulling for Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I? Heck, even Glenn Shut was rooting towards her!

Gwyneth Paltrow additionally talked about the much-feared query of, So I’ve received the Academy Award–now what? “As soon as I received the Oscar, it put me right into a little bit of an id disaster, as a result of if you happen to win the largest prize, like what are you presupposed to do? And the place are you presupposed to go? It was onerous the quantity of consideration that you simply obtain on an evening like that and the weeks following, it’s so disorienting. And admittedly, actually unhealthy.” Happily, she didn’t precisely go the way in which of Cuba Gooding Jr. or Roberto Benigni or Mira Sorvino, who’re additionally within the class of people that undeservedly received their statues…Actually, Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t have that dangerous of a droop after her Oscar victory. Certain, there’s Duets and Bounce, however there was additionally The Gifted Mr. Ripley, The Royal Tenenbaums and Shallow Hal, which has a little bit of a following. That’s with out mentioning later successes, like her position within the MCU (which is definitively over, so sorry, Pepper Potts followers) and regardless of the hell she’s making an attempt to tug with Goop, which, whereas a snake oil empire, remains to be value $250 million.

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