Gwyneth Paltrow has made her political views clear, saying her husband Brad Falchuk is very progressive and “considers me a Republican.”
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Gwyneth Paltrow is not a Republican, she says, despite what her husband thinks.
The “Marty Supreme” star, 53, revealed her political views on the June 2 episode of “The Goop Podcast,” joking about comparisons to her husband Brad Falchuk.
“He’s very progressive,” she added with a laugh. “I’m pretty centrist, and my husband thinks I’m a Republican, but I’m not. To be honest, I don’t feel anything right now. I feel completely independent.”
Paltrow made this point during a conversation with Trey Stevens, co-founder of defense technology company Anduril Industries. He argued in favor of mandatory civil service in the United States, but said that in today’s political world, “we’ve all become very tribal” and that America’s problems cannot be solved without “open and respectful dialogue.”
Paltrow said she couldn’t agree more, saying her husband “has a very kind heart and wants everyone to be taken care of,” but that she sometimes encourages him to listen to different points of view than her own.
“It’s very exciting for people,” she says. “I think it’s become very dichotomous. I think right now, in my journey as an American, I’m trying to weave together a lot of different perspectives and come out of a place of justice and anger and fear.”
The Oscar-winning actress has hosted Democratic Party fundraisers in the past, including one attended by former President Barack Obama at a rally at her Los Angeles home in 2014. Paltrow told Obama at the time that she was “one of your biggest fans, if not your biggest fan,” according to Time magazine. Paltrow previously shot an ad for Obama during the 2008 election, according to Time magazine.
Paltrow also hosted a fundraiser for Democrat Pete Buttigieg in 2019.
However, in a 2023 profile in The New York Times, Paltrow said she was “tolerant of everyone” and said she recently listened to a podcast featuring then-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “It was very interesting to hear his perspective,” she said. Paltrow’s representatives later contacted her to express “concerns that her political views would be the focus of this article,” and described Paltrow as an “independent thinker,” the NYT reported.
In 2016, Paltrow reacted to the election of President Donald Trump, saying it was an exciting time to be an American because people were “tired of the status quo” and “we’re at an amazing tipping point” (Page 6). She further added, “I’m not going to say whose side I’m on, but the big lesson I learned was, ‘I’m not, so I need to really open up and understand more deeply.'” ”
