Gwyneth Paltrow has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the beginning, starring opposite Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark as Pepper Potts in Iron Man. She’s since reprised the character in six more movies, although Paltrow has also frequently demonstrated MCU cluelessness, like forgetting she worked with Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Homecoming. So when someone asked her what Pepper’s been up to since we last saw her in Avengers: Endgame, she gave a delightfully on-brand explanation.
When we left off with Pepper in Endgame, which can be streamed with a Disney+ subscription, she was attending Tony’s funeral with their daughter Morgan, close friends James Rhodes and Happy Hogan, and so many of her late husband’s fellow superheroes and allies. Six and a half years after the movie’s release, and roughly that same amount passing within the MCU itself, Gwyneth Paltrow was asked for her thoughts on Pepper’s current status while appearing on Entertainment Weekly’s The Awardist podcast. After acknowledging that she “would've had to see all the Avengers movies to get some story context for what she's doing,” the Marty Supreme star speculated:
