Glenn Close admits Gwyneth Paltrow's Oscar win for Shakespeare in Love 'didn't make sense' to her
"I thought, 'What?'"
BY CHRIS EDWARDS
29/11/2020
Glenn Close has admitted that Gwyneth Paltrow's 1999 Oscar win for Shakespeare in Love 'didn't make sense' to her.
Appearing on ABC News' Popcorn with Peter Travers to promote her new Netflix movie Hillbilly Elegy, the multiple Oscar nominee shared her thoughts on entertainment industry awards and why she doesn't see the logic in comparing performances.
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Citing Paltrow's Oscar-winning performance as Viola De Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love as a prime example, she said: "I've never understood how you could honestly compare performances.
"I remember the year Gwyneth Paltrow won over that incredible actress who was in Central Station. I thought, 'What? It doesn't make sense.'
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"So I think who wins has a lot of things to do with... whether it has traction or whatever. Publicity, how much money did they have to put it out in front of everybody's sight."
Paltrow beat fellow nominees Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Emily Watson and Fernanda Montenegro (the actress from Central Station mentioned by Close).
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Close has been nominated for an Oscar seven times, but if she gets the nod for Hillbilly Elegy (in spite of the film being universally panned by critics), she fears she won't get to celebrate it properly due to the ongoing pandemic.
"It's so sad if it happens when we're all unable to celebrate in a room together," she told Travers. "I mean, that would be ironic, but that's what life does, right?"
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