{"id":327330,"date":"2025-12-04T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327330\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:32:15","slug":"robert-downey-jr-teases-gwyneth-paltrow-for-being-forever-confused-by-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327330\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr. teases Gwyneth Paltrow for being ‘forever confused’ by Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Downey Jr.<\/a> is not letting Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a> off the hook for not knowing her own Marvel<\/a> movies or costars.\n<\/p>\n

During The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s\u00a02025\u00a0Women in Entertainment\u00a0breakfast\u00a0gala at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Wednesday, Downey Jr. gave a speech honoring his former onscreen love interest as she accepted the 20th annual Sherry Lansing Leadership Award.\n<\/p>\n

And while most of his remarks were heartfelt, he also made sure to tease Paltrow for her constant confusion over the Marvel Cinematic Universe \u2014 especially her own movie appearances.\n<\/p>\n

“[She’s] impossibly intelligent, yet forever confused by the basic tenets of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its inhabitants,” Downey Jr. said, according to THR.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. in ‘Iron Man’.<\/p>\n

Zade Rosenthal\/Marvel Studios<\/p>\n

He then revealed she once asked him who Tom Holland was, despite starring alongside him several times.\n<\/p>\n

“‘Who\u2019s that?'” Downey Jr. remembered, to which he responded, “‘That\u2019s Spider-Man. He said his name was Peter. His character’s name is Peter. He’s Tom Holland. You’ve done four movies with him.'”\n<\/p>\n

Downey Jr. then praised Paltrow for “building [her company] Goop between takes on the set of\u00a0Iron Man,” while also raising her kids and consistently working in Hollywood.\n<\/p>\n

Paltrow and Downey Jr. played love interests Pepper Potts and Tony Stark, respectively, across many MCU movies, beginning in 2008’s Iron Man through 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. Despite her lengthy Marvel resume, Paltrow has gone viral many times for not remembering key details, including the fact that she was literally in some films.\n<\/p>\n

Paltrow got into a hilarious exchange with MCU director Jon Favreau and celebrity chef Roy Choi in the first episode of Netflix’s\u00a0The Chef Show\u00a0in 2019, where she confidently claimed she wasn’t in Spider-Man: Homecoming.\n<\/p>\n

“Remember when we were in\u00a0Spider-Man?” Favreau asked Paltrow.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t in\u00a0Spider-Man,\u201d Paltrow responded.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYes we were,\u201d Favreau said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHomecoming,\u201d Choi helpfully added.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were in\u00a0Spider-Man,\u201d Favreau said again.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I was in\u00a0Avengers,\u201d Paltrow responded.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were in\u00a0Spider-Man\u00a0also,\u201d Favreau pointed out.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d Paltrow asked.\n<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember, it\u2019s\u00a0Spider-Man\u00a0at the end, and Tom Holland\u2019s there, and you\u2019re gonna walk out and do a press conference?\u201d Favreau prompted.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cOh yes!\u201d Paltrow finally exclaimed.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was\u00a0Spider-Man,\u201d Favreau said.\n<\/p>\n

“That was\u00a0Spider-Man??\u201d Paltrow realized. \u201cOh my god.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

More recently, Paltrow exposed her MCU confusion again by publicly admitting that she doesn’t understand<\/a> Downey Jr.’s upcoming onscreen return as new character Dr. Doom. In July 2024, Paltrow posted a comment on\u00a0his Instagram post<\/a>\u00a0revealing his return: “I don’t get it, are you a baddie now?”\n<\/p>\n

Hopefully by the time Avengers: Doomsday comes out on Dec. 18, 2026, Paltrow will have studied up on her MCU lore.<\/p>\n