Gwyneth Paltrow reveals why she refused sex scene with Ethan Hawke…
Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke are wanting again on their time filming “Great Expectations.”
The pair, who starred together in Alfonso Cuarón’s 1998 movie adaptation of the Charles Dickens traditional, not too long ago reunited to debate the film and the one scene that Paltrow refused to do.
“Do you remember Alfonso pitching you the love scene?” Hawke, 55, requested Paltrow, 53, during a video for Vanity Fair printed on Dec. 17.
Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow starred together in the 1998 movie adaptation of “Great Expectations.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
Ethan Hawke as Finnegan and Gwyneth Paltrow as Estella in “Great Expectations.” twentieth Century Fox Licensing/Merchandising / Everett Collection
The scene in query, which never got here to be, would have seen Paltrow’s character Estella obtain oral sex from Hawke’s Finnegan.
“I was like, ‘Oh, my God, my father’s going to have a heart attack,’” the “Shakespeare in Love” star recalled.
Hawke went on to element how the movie’s director pitched the sex scene thought to him and Paltrow 27 years in the past.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke in director Alfonso Cuarón’s 1998 movie adaptation of “Great Expectations.” twentieth Century Fox Licensing/Merchandising / Everett Collection
Anne Bancroft and Ethan Hawke in “Great Expectations.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
“The camera is going to go down your belly, and then it’s going to go up your breasts, and then it’s going to go in your face as you reach ecstasy,” Cuarón, 64, said at the time. “And then when you reach ecstasy, the light will explode like the sun!”
But that was when the “Se7en” star put her foot down on the thought.
“And I remember looking at Gwyneth, and Gwyneth is like, ‘Alfonso, I’m never going to do that,’” Hawke recalled, as Paltrow laughed beside him.
Paltrow acknowledged that she felt “really self-conscious about my dad and grandfather seeing this kind of stuff” during her early Hollywood profession, and it “really bothered” her.
Gwyneth Paltrow as Estella in “Great Expectations.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
Gwyneth Paltrow at the NYC premiere of “Marty Supreme” on Dec. 16, 2025. BACKGRID
“Now, I wouldn’t care,” she added.
Still, the “Before Sunrise” actor praised his former co-star for the manner she dealt with the scenario.
“You had an awareness of the way that the business works, and the ways in which those kinds of images could be manipulated and what it meant to your dad,” Hawke famous.
Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow kissing in a scene from “Great Expectations.” twentieth Century Fox Licensing/Merchandising / Everett Collection
Elsewhere during their chat, Paltrow and Hawke touched up on their careers practically 30 years after the release of “Great Expectations.”
Hawke’s latest movie, “Blue Moon,” was launched on Oct. 24 and stars the Golden Globe nominee as Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart.
Paltrow, meanwhile, portrays Kay Stone reverse Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Mauser in the newly launched ping-pong drama “Marty Supreme.”
Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart in “Blue Moon.” AP
Gwyneth Paltrow as Kay Stone in “Marty Supreme.”
“We were two extremely idealistic young people who had a great vision for what we wanted to do and how we wanted to contribute,” Hawke shared. “And you were never ordinary. You’ve always been you.”
“I think we are fundamentally very much the same people,” Paltrow echoed. “I think we have had these lives that have taken all kinds of twists and turns, but I think we’ve both remained true to ourselves and who we are.”
Unlike “Great Expectations,” “Marty Supreme” contains a number of sex scenes between Paltrow and her 30-year-old co-star.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothée Chalamet kissing in “Marty Supreme.” AP
The Oscar winner opened up those scenes and the practically 24-year age hole between her and Chalamet during another chat with Vanity Fair earlier this yr.
“I was like, ‘Okay, great. I’m 109 years old. You’re 14,” she told the outlet in March. “We have a lot of sex in this movie.”
“I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie,” Paltrow added. “There’s a lot – a lot.”
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