Gwyneth Paltrow grew up within the highlight along with her well-known dad and mom – actress Blythe Danner and movie producer-director Bruce Paltrow – and she or he’s additionally the goddaughter of film icon and essentially the most celebrated director of his technology, Steven Spielberg. 

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A lifelong buddy of Gwyneth’s father, who sadly handed away in 2002, the legendary filmmaker has all the time been there for his goddaughter. Steven has even documented among the Goop founder’s most cherished moments, together with her 2018 marriage ceremony to second husband, Brad Falchuk. 

“I suppose I had a reasonably good videographer,” Gwyneth joked on The Kelly Clarkson Present in 2021. “He all the time has a video digicam in his fingers, so any household occasion – the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, regardless of the case could also be – he’s all the time videoing.

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“He undoubtedly has videoed me through the years and he was truly, you realize, the one one who was videoing at my marriage ceremony two and a half years in the past.”

In a candy twist, it was additionally Steven, 76, that gave Gwyneth, 50, one among her first main alternatives in Hollywood. Throughout a 2011 interview with Leisure Weekly, the director recalled: “Bruce [Paltrow], her dad, and [my wife] Kate [Capshaw] and I had taken Gwynnie to see The Silence of the Lambs when it first got here out. We have been driving again from the movie show, and I used to be going again to work [on Hook] the following day. I used to be taking a look at her within the rearview mirror, and she or he was speaking in regards to the movie. And he or she had this actually frightened look on her face, and it all of a sudden clicked. … So I circled and stated, ‘Do you need to make a film?’ She obtained a SAG card due to it.”

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Following their journey to the theater, Gwyneth was ultimately solid as a younger Wendy Darling in Hook (1991), and the remainder is historical past! The actress has gone on to obtain varied accolades together with an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. A few of her most iconic films embody Seven (1995) Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Proficient Mr Ripley (1999), Shallow Hal (2001) and Iron Man (2008), plus its sequels. Performing has taken a backseat for Gwyneth in recent times as she pivoted to her mega-successful wellness and life-style model Goop.

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Whereas they each have busy schedules, Steven and Gwyneth have continued to spend high quality time collectively, they usually’ve continuously gone on trip collectively. In 2011, the director took his goddaughter and her two kids – Apple and Moses – on his $280 million luxurious yacht Seven Seas for a go to to Porto Cervo, Sardinia. 

The journey truly made headlines after indignant sunbathers known as police and coastguards to complain in regards to the noise coming from one among Steven’s speedboats after it breached the 900ft exclusion zone from the shoreline. 

Based on Mail On-line, the filmmaker was pleased to pay the ensuing high-quality and politely advised officers: “I am sorry. I am Steven Spielberg. I did not know the foundations. It is solely proper I pay.”

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When their not vacationing collectively, Steven and Gwyneth have additionally caught up at main Hollywood occasions, they usually’re all the time so pleased to see one another.

In 2012, the director and his goddaughter posed for images with Steven’s spouse, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom actress Kate Capshaw, on the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at Hollywood & Highland Centre. And judging by the grins on their faces, they’ve essentially the most cute bond.