There’s a part of me that feels shy and doesn’t feel like I’m naturally an extrovert. I started doing it so young. I went for a long time before I asked myself — ‘do I like this job? Am I comfortable doing this? Do I want to be an actor?’” she said.
Gwyneth Paltrow says she has decided to step back from her acting career after discovering that she was happier away from the camera. In a conversation with Naomi Campbell on her YouTube series, the actor also shared that she is not comfortable with being a public person. Paltrow has lately taken up fewer acting roles, with her most recent film role being in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.
She said, “I realised later in life that I actually haven’t been that comfortable being a public person or being in front of the camera even though I’ve done it for so long. There’s a part of me that feels shy and doesn’t feel like I’m naturally an extrovert. I started doing it so young. I went for a long time before I asked myself — ‘do I like this job? Am I comfortable doing this? Do I want to be an actor?’” she said.