Gwyneth Paltrow is ping-ponging her way back to the big screen.
After years of focusing on her various businesses, the Oscar winner, 51, is joining the cast of Marty Supreme, an upcoming feature-length project from director and co-writer Josh Safdie.
Timothée Chalamet, 28, is starring in the A24 film, which Variety reported in July is inspired by professional ping-pong player Marty Reisman. A24 announced the news in a July 15 post on X.
Gwyneth Paltrow on Jan. 23, 2024.
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Paltrow’s casting news marks her return to film after 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, in which she reprised her role as Pepper Potts from the Iron Man franchise. Marty Supremeis her first credit since lending her voice to a 2023 episode of American Horror Storiesand an uncredited moment in the 2022 biopic She Said. From 2019 to 2020, she starred in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician.
The Shakespeare in Love star previously indicated that she was stepping away from acting to focus on lifestyle and wellness brand Goop, which she founded in 2008.
“I’m still going to do a little bit here and there, but this really requires almost all of my time,” Paltrow said on Today back in 2017. “I had an incredible acting career, but I had this deep passion to produce content and make great products and curate things. It sort of evolved slowly and had a long gestational period and now it’s like, a real business.”
Paltrow has also shared that having now-20-year-old daughter Apple (whom she shares with ex-husband Chris Martin, alongside son Moses, 18) was another reason to semi-retire from the screen. “Once I had Apple, I really didn’t want to fly off and go [on] location, and I wanted to be home,” she said during a launch event for good.clean.goop in 2023.
Last November, Paltrow hinted that one beloved Marvel Cinematic Universe costar could sway her decision. “It would be very hard for me to do any acting right at the moment, just because of my job,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “But I guess Robert Downey Jr. could probably always get me back.”
Chalamet, who is producing Marty Supremealongside Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Ronald Bronstein and Safdie, is set to play a fictionalized version of Reisman. The table tennis champion died in 2012. Among the Dune star’s upcoming projects is Bob Dylanbiopic A Complete Unknown.
