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Gwyneth Paltrow On Superhero Movies: “You Can Only Make So Many Good Ones”


She's been a mainstay of 'Iron Man' and 'Avengers' movies, but the actress understands that we may have reached peak superhero.

Appearing on First We Feast’s Hot Ones, hosted by Sean Evans, she was asked about director Cord Jefferson’s recent Oscar speech. Jefferson won the Best Adapted Screenplay award for American Fiction, and used the platform to beg Hollywood for budget sanity. “But if I look at the industry as a whole, this big push into superhero movies … you can only make so many good ones that feel truly original, and yet they’re still always trying to reach as many people as possible, which sometimes hinders quality or specificity or real point of view.”

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