Gwyneth Paltrow Jokes About Using Her Oscar Statuette as a Doorstop: ‘It Works Perfectly!’

Gwyneth Paltrow puts her Oscar statuette to work.

During the interview with Vogue for the “73 Questions” video, the actress, 51, revealed she was using her trophy – which she won for best actress in 1998. Shakespeare in love — as a limiter.

In the video, which was shot over the summer at her home in the Hamptons, Paltrow led interviewer Joe Sabio into her garden. As the couple walked through the door, the camera stopped on Oscar on the ground, propping the door open.

“What a beautiful Oscars,” said Sabia.

Paltrow turned around with a smile and joked, “My limiter. It works perfectly!”

Sabia revisited Oscar’s double duty later in the video, after the actress was asked about the whereabouts of the red velvet Gucci suit she wore to the 1996 MTV VMAs.

“It’s in my closet in California,” Paltrow said of the iconic suit, which she wore again at Gucci’s 2021 show.

“So you don’t use it to hold the door in here?” Sabia joked, and Paltrow laughed and said, “Not right now.”

Gwyneth Paltrow won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 1998 Academy Awards.

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Elsewhere in the interview, Paltrow was asked about her favorite movie role. “Oh my God, I’ve been so lucky. I’ve had so many amazing roles,” she said.

However, among all the characters she has portrayed over the years, she singled out her favorite line of dialogue. “Probably from The The Royal Tenenbaums when Margot says, ‘You probably don’t even know my middle name,’ she revealed.

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Paltrow also shared the moment that first sparked her interest in becoming an actress. “He’s probably looking at my mother [Blythe Danner] doing plays when I was very young at the Williamstown Theater Festival,” she recalled.

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Sabia asked Paltrow which of her many movies she would actually sit down and watch in their entirety. “Could be Emma” she replied, referring to her role as Jane Austen’s heroine in 1996.

The Goop founder also answered what she misses most about being a leading lady in Hollywood: “Nothing,” she said matter-of-factly.

Gwyneth Paltrow.

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In May, Paltrow opened up about her Oscar win, revealing that she suffered an “identity crisis” after the peak of her career.

“I just wanted to be successful and appreciated. I was on this very fast path and everything happened so quickly,” she said while visiting Call her dad podcast. “For someone like me, who I think I went through a lot of the tougher parts of my growing up through achieving success.”

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“When I won the Oscar, it put me in a bit of an identity crisis, because if you win the biggest award, what are you supposed to do?” she continued. “And where are you supposed to go? It was hard, like, the amount of attention you get on a night like that and the weeks that follow is so disorienting and, frankly, really unhealthy.”

While she acknowledges the accomplishment, Paltrow said she was overwhelmed by the experience.

“It’s not like I’d take it back or anything, it was an amazing experience, but it kind of made me question a lot of things,” she explained.

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