Robert Downey Jr. gives a hilarious introduction to friend and Sherry Lansing Leadership Award recipient, Gwyneth Paltrow, at THR's Women in Entertainment 2025 gala.
00:30Impossibly intelligent, but forever confused by the basic tenets of the Marvel Universe and its inhabitants.
00:41Who's that?
00:43He said his name was Peter.
00:46No, his character's name is Peter.
00:48That's Tom Holland.
00:49You did four movies with him.
00:53Yeah.
00:55She's a great actor, and yet wholly unimpressed.
01:00With herself.
01:01She's got a few blind spots, but she's got vision.
01:07Vision.
01:08All caps.
01:09I pulled her out of her first unannounced retirement from cinema in 2007.
01:20She was a birthing and building goop between takes on the set of Iron Man, having spent the previous decade and a half just gobbling up Oscars and Globes,
01:32always choosing directors at these critical points in their careers, both Andersons, Paul Thomas and Wes, Minghella, Soderbergh, Fincher, while also becoming a devoted mother and wife.
01:48And she then, while juggling kids, career, and somewhat accurate but cruel misconceptions,
01:55introduced the planet to the possibility of conscious uncoupling.
02:08You remember that?
02:10Which Hollywood has done a great job not emulating.
02:15The exceptions prove the rule.
02:16You know who you are.
02:17And the last decade is such a whirlwind of self-actualization that I can only describe it in fever dream flashes.
02:30This is me kind of dreaming.
02:35And then I'm going to come out of the dream and tell you what I'm seeing.
02:37I'm just kind of setting it up for you.
02:42Product lines.
02:44Brick and mortars.
02:46Sitting on Brad Falchuk's lap on the set of Glee.
02:54Health and wellness summits.
02:57Emmy Award for Glee still on Brad Falchuk's lap.
03:00Goop Kitchen quickly realizes Brad is no rebound boy toy but her equal in every measure.
03:11Goop Lab joins families.
03:15Doubles therapy.
03:16Legit magical wedding.
03:21Chipotle taco crunch bowl, a.k.a. their honeymoon in Punta Mita.
03:28That's going to settle in.
03:29You're going to understand why that's funny later.
03:30Sidelining of second unannounced acting retirement for emerging talent Josh Safdie.
03:37Make out sesh with Timmy, Marty Supreme.
03:40I got it.
03:41It is so miraculous if you think about it.
03:48It's so unprecedented.
03:50It's so sublimely annoying.
03:55Can we agree?
03:58Counterpoint.
03:59If you think this candle smells like her...
04:03Polarizing public persona...
04:09It's polarizing?
04:13That is a word used by dingbats to falsely describe powerful women
04:20who demonstrate decades of irrefutable relevance and reinvention.
04:26And in an age when we just crave leadership, anything like it, example, integrity, resolve,
04:43and too often, you know, we come up short.
04:49We have here...
04:50I'm going to get emotional.
04:51We have here a woman that is willing to go to trial confronting her retired optometrist accuser
05:00regarding an alleged injury on a Deer Valley ski resort slope
05:07and comfort herself so honorably
05:12that a musical theater production is born to commemorate her moral strength and intestinal fortitude.
05:22Not to mention her impeccably tasteful, civil-suit, chic, yet practical courtroom attire.
05:38Notably amongst which were a stealth wealth ensemble of knit turtleneck wide-leg brown trousers,
05:47tan leather boots with aviator glasses,
05:49let alone the G-label belted cream cardigan with chunky gold jewelry and chocolatier leather tote,
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