“The great thing about ‘3’ is that [director/writer] Shane [Black] and [writer] Drew [Pearce], we had a complete screenplay when we started, and that was great,” Paltrow told MTV News. “The other two movies, we were writing as we were going, we were improvising the whole thing, and it was a much more difficult process.”
While Paltrow’s revelation sounds damning of the first two “Iron Man” movies and their creators, she insists that a variety of unavoidable circumstances, not a lack of creativity, demanded that approach. “It was no one’s fault,” she said. “It was just because of timing and this and that.”
Paltrow also said that starting production with a script that not only featured a beginning, middle and end, but one that gave the characters a lot of substance, made her job as an actress much easier once she stepped onto set.
“When you start with a screenplay that’s really, really well-thought-through and is dealing with deeper meanings and it works on a hugely commercial level, but goes a lot deeper — it was easy. It was, ‘Oh, this is all here this time. This is great!’ I could just think about what I’m doing and fill it all in.”
“Iron Man 3” is now in theaters.
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