In the report, Variety added that Paltrow hasn’t always been this absent-minded or disinterested about her MCU tenure. On the contrary, when she started out in “Iron Man,” she enjoyed the almost Indie feel of it all. “They said it’s going to feel like doing an indie film,” she explained. “We’re gonna have fun and you don’t have to be in too much of the action part anyway. So I thought, Oh, okay. And we had such a good time. We improvised almost every scene of that movie. We would write it in the morning in Jon’s trailer, and it was like doing [an indie] film.”
Paltrow may have enjoyed her first foray as Pepper Potts, but it wasn’t long before the shine wore off. The skyrocketing popularity of the films made them major productions, and that took much of the fun out of the creative process. At this point, there’s only one thing that could purportedly get her back into character: Robert Downey Jr.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Paltrow joked, “But, I guess Robert Downey Jr. could probably always get me back. You know, to some degree.” The only issue with that plan? In yet another interview, MCU boss Kevin Feige made it clear that they would never bring RDJ’s Tony Stark back to avoid magically undoing his impeccable send-off in “Avengers: Endgame.” It looks like Paltrow’s role in the MCU is over for the foreseeable future, which should leave her plenty of time to eventually catch up on all of the Marvel movies she’s missed — in theory, anyway.
