Gwen does us proud in Iron Man
It goes as a testament of our sentiments about Gwyneth Paltrow that we’ve more or less taken to calling her Fishsticks instead of her real name: she doesn’t irritate us, but frankly the last movie we saw her in that we liked was Se7en, and we all know how that turned out. Cue music:
It’s my head in a box! Head in a box, yeah!
Anyway, for some inexplicable reason we’ve been really into the idea of Gwen playing Virginia “Pepper” Potts, Tony Stark/Iron Man’s lovably maternal secretary/will-they-won’t-they pseudo love interest. Well, we just came back from seeing Iron Man and can we just say, hats off to Gwennie. We don’t quite know why, but Gwen’s slight blandness and not-so-deep onscreen personality actually propels Pepper forward and makes her credible: it’s like the ugly ducking grew into a beautiful swan with no idea what to do with itself, so it throws itself into its hunky boss’ life, reattaches his weird titanium heart pacemaker thing, and gives him the strength to move forward.
Also, Iron Man is a really good movie and we wanted to write about it, and this is a blog about actresses.
The New York Magazine Vulture blog basically feel the same way we do, and wrote a pretty cool article today about Gwen as Pepper. We personally think she deserves the Oscar nom if only for running through the last 20 minutes of the movie in 3-inch stilettos. Seriously, homegirl booked it around that power plant, right?
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts: Surprisingly Super [via Vulture]
