Oscar Winning Actor Gwyneth Paltrow Opens Up On Giving Up Film Roles For Her Children

In a recent interview the Sliding Doors actor got candid about turning down movie roles for the sake of her family.

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00:00 Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has spoken about the cinematic sacrifices she made while raising her

00:06 two kids. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she revealed turning down a number of amazing

00:11 parts in films for her family's sake. In an interview with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager

00:18 on the American Daytime Talk show Today with Hoda and Jenna, Gwyneth revealed that she turned down

00:24 some amazing roles in order to raise her son and daughter. "I mean, it's funny because it didn't

00:30 feel like a sacrifice to me at the time. But if I look back at it through a cultural lens, I think

00:37 like, 'Wow, if people know that I didn't do this movie or that movie, they'd be quite shocked,'"

00:43 she added. "Well, it's kind of ironic because I really stepped away from acting when Apple was

00:49 born," she stated. "The last time I was in every scene of a movie was when I was pregnant with her.

00:56 When I had her, it just everything felt redefined for me. I thought, 'I'm not sure that I want to

01:02 do this so much as a career. I definitely don't want to. I'm not going to go away for months on

01:10 end.'" While Paltrow has starred in several films such as Shakespeare in Love, Sliding Doors and

01:15 the Iron Man series, she started to pick her roles far more carefully after having kids.

01:22 For the unversed, the artist is a co-parent to her children Moses and Apple with her ex-husband

01:28 Chris Martin and is currently hitched to her current spouse Brad Feltcher.