Paltrow says husband thinks she’s a Republican

Gwyneth Paltrow says she’s not a Republican, joking that her husband Brad Falchuk—described as “so progressive”—thinks her politics lean that way. She framed her own stance as “completely an independent,” while urging more open, respectful dialogue amid today’

Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t start her political clarification with a platform or a slogan. She started with a laugh and a contradiction she clearly couldn’t let stand.

On June 2, during an episode of her “Goop Podcast,” the 53-year-old “Marty Supreme” star said her husband, Brad Falchuk, is so progressive that he “thinks I’m a Republican.” Then she made the line unmistakable: “I’m not a Republican.”

“I feel like I’m completely an independent,” Paltrow said, adding that she didn’t feel “anything right now” about the label and, speaking frankly, told listeners, “I don’t feel anything right now, to be totally honest with you.”

The exchange came in a conversation with Trae Stephens, cofounder of the defense technology company Anduril Industries. They discussed mandatory civil service in the United States. and Stephens argued that “we’re all getting so tribal” in politics today. He said solving problems in America won’t be possible without an “open, respectful dialogue.”.

Paltrow said she couldn’t agree more. She described what draws her husband toward others—“he has such a sweet heart, and he wants to make sure everybody’s looked after”—but said she sometimes ends up pushing him to listen to viewpoints that don’t match his own.

“It is very triggering for people,” she said. “It’s become so binary, I think.”

Her aim, she explained, is to step away from the emotional heat that politics can demand.

“I am trying to, in my journey through being an American right now, I guess sort of weave together lots of different points of view, and also to get out of that place of righteousness and anger and fear,” she said.

Paltrow’s clarification lands against a backdrop of public political activity that has repeatedly brought her into the spotlight. She has hosted Democratic fundraisers in the past. including one in 2014 at her Los Angeles home where former President Barack Obama attended. At the time. Paltrow told Obama she was “one of your biggest fans. if not the biggest. ” and Time magazine noted she had previously taped an ad for Obama in the 2008 election.

She also hosted a fundraiser for Democrat Pete Buttigieg in 2019.

In a 2023 profile in the New York Times. Paltrow said she is “open-minded about everybody” and said she had recently listened to a podcast featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an independent candidate for president. She described the episode as “very interesting to hear his point of view.” The NYT reported that a representative for Paltrow later reached out to express “concerns that her political views would be a focus of this article” and described her as an “independent thinker.”.

Earlier. when President Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Paltrow said it was an “exciting time to be an American because we are at this amazing inflection point” where people were “tired of the status quo.” She added. “I’m not going to tell you what side I’m on. but my big takeaway was. ‘I really need to open my mind and understand better because I don’t.’”.

The through-line from those moments to her June 2 remarks is the same tension she kept returning to: the discomfort with politics becoming “so binary. ” and the insistence that dialogue has to be bigger than labels. In her telling, the argument isn’t about winning a team—it’s about staying willing to listen.

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