Gwyneth Paltrow Faced an Identity Crisis After Oscar Win: ‘What Are You Supposed to Do? Where Are You Supposed to Go?’ (Video)
thewrap.comopenly mocked for sobbing her way through her acceptance speech, and the fact that “Shakespeare in Love” upset Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” for Best Picture didn’t sit will with a lot of movie fans.“I felt a real pivot on that night because I felt like up until that moment everybody was kind of rooting for me in a way.
And then when I won, it was like too much, and I could feel a real turn,” she said.Paltrow explained why she was so emotional that Oscar night, her father: the late director Bruce Paltrow, who was seated with her, was undergoing cancer treatment. “He was really debilitated.
It was just this totally overwhelming moment,” she said. “And, you know, I was 26. I cried and people were so mean about it and I just thought, ‘Wow there’s this big energy shift that’s happening.
I think I’m going to have to learn to be less openhearted and much more protective of myself and filter people out better.'”She added, “I remember I was working in England…and I remember the British press being so horrible to me because I cried.
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