If you spotted Gwyneth Paltrow in Rhode Island this weekend, she wasn’t there filming — she was visiting her “dream school.”
It was Family Weekend at Brown University — Moses Martin, her son with Coldplay’s Chris Martin, is in his second year— and proud mom/Oscar winner/CEO of goop joined Brown University President Christina H. Paxson on stage at Brown’s Salomon Center for Teaching for a keynote event on Oct. 18, according to Brown’s social media and Boston.com.
Paltrow called Brown her “dream school,” adding it was a “pinch-me” moment to visit the Providence campus, per Brown’s Instagram.
“The one requirement I have for myself is that I am always in a state of learning, always experimenting and hopefully raising some eyebrows along the way,” Paltrow said, per the post.
The Brown Daily Herald reported that Paltrow, 53, spoke to parents about the empty-nest feeling, something the actor has been candid about in her Instagram stories and posts. She’s been vocal about using the term “free bird,” versus “empty nester,” but Moses’ birthday hit Paltrow especially hard, she posted.
Notably, during the question-and-answer portion of the event, she “hinted at future projects.”
“I might be in another Marvel movie,” Paltrow said, per the Herald.
She, of course, has other projects in the works as well. Paltrow and her lookalike daughter Apple Martin, 21, are making buzzy headlines as the new faces of GAP.
Since her breakout role in “Seven,” (1995) Paltrow has appeared in “Shakespeare in Love,” “Emma,” “Sliding Doors,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” and several Marvel movies as Tony Stark’s loyal assistant Pepper Potts. She stars currently with Timothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme.”
She’s also got strong New England ties: Paltrow cut her teeth acting at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Berkshires.
No word on where or if Paltrow, who is now married to Brad Falchuk, dined out in Providence this weekend.
But last year, she embarked on a gourmet food tour around New England while dropping her kids off at college. In New Haven— stepson Brody Falchuk was starting at Yale — Paltrow hit up Connecticut’s pizza stalwart Sally’s Apizza. At New Haven’s Fair Haven Oyster Company, she posted: “The fried dough & caviar was incredible. Had one of the best cheeseburgers of my life.”
In Providence, they hit up Al Forno, for “griddled pizzas, beet and avocado salad, linguine w/ clams, duck confit, baked pasta.” And lunched at Frank & Laurie’s, where Paltrow posted that she had “the best lunch of (her) life.”