Gwyneth Paltrow’s Son Moses Had the Most Teen Response Possible To Her Role in Marty Supreme
Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest Marty Supreme press stop came with a very teen reality check — the kind that fits neatly into the whole older-women, younger-men relationship movies conversation, but hits different when you’re the parent in the scenario.
During a Q&A for the film in Santa Monica on Friday, Jan. 9, Paltrow said her son Moses, 19, had exactly one reaction to seeing her intimate scenes with Timothée Chalamet in a theater: absolutely not.
“Oh my God! My poor son,” she told Demi Moore, who participated in the screening and Q&A. Recalling Moses attending the Los Angeles premiere, Paltrow added, “He wanted to die,” she said, per People.
If that sounds familiar to anyone parenting older teens, it’s because Paltrow has been describing this exact “please don’t make me watch you be Famous in public” dynamic for a while. In a December interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she said her kids “like me home, as Mom,” and “don’t like to engage with the outside perspective of who I am.”
That same interview also captured the sibling split. Paltrow said Apple reacted to the now-viral photos of her kissing Chalamet during filming like, “Mom, this is awesome!” while Moses responded, “Oh my God, I don’t want to see this,” adding that he was “kind of mortified.” Which makes the premiere quote feel less like a surprise and more like the sequel.
The other reason Moses’ reaction is sticking is because Paltrow hasn’t been coy about what Marty Supreme asked of her onscreen. In a Vanity Fair profile last March, she said, “We have a lot of sex in this movie… There’s a lot — a lot.” She also talked in that same interview about learning, mid-return-to-acting, that “there’s now something called an intimacy coordinator,” and recalled telling the coordinator at one point, “We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back,'” — which drew some online backlash and industry pushback.
The awkwardness isn’t just happening in the theater — Paltrow’s also been candid about how weird the project can look up close. In late December, she explained on a podcast how she mistook Chalamet’s acne-scar makeup for the real thing and suggested microneedling, before he replied, “Are you insane?”
As for the movie itself, Marty Supreme stars Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a 1950s New York shoe salesman obsessed with becoming the world’s best table tennis player. It’s in theaters now, which means Moses’ premiere reaction is officially part of the record, right alongside the very normal truth that teens do not want to watch their parents do anything remotely romantic on a giant screen.
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