Many people need nothing greater than for Gwyneth Paltrow to reunite with director Wes Anderson. Her character in The Royal Tenenbaums, Margot, launched a thousand Tumblr blogs and offered the premise for extra Millennials’s 20-something personalities than they’d prefer to admit. Alas, Paltrow has famously semi-retired from performing—however at present, she did step again into Anderson’s world together with her 17-year-old son Moses by her aspect in a non-acting position.

The Goop excessive empress is in Milan, and paid a go to to the native campus of Fondazione Prada, Miucci Prada’s prized establishment devoted to showcasing modern artwork. Displays shuffle out and in, however the area’s fixed characteristic—and its most well-known—could also be Bar Luce, a bar and counter service restaurant designed by none apart from Wes Anderson.

Opened in 2015, Anderson stated he took inspiration from typical Milanese cafés and designed it much less to seem like a film set and extra like a useful, real-life place the place he might truly spend a day engaged on a film script. Nonetheless, the bar’s decor and coloration scheme has that unmistakable contact of Andersonian whimsy. There’s even a Life Aquatic-themed pinball machine.

Whereas not precisely Margot’s model, Paltrow’s outfit of the day wouldn’t appear too misplaced in an Anderson movie. She wore a horizontally striped red-and-white button-down with easy short-shorts and white lace-up sneakers. The e-book in her hand? James Baldwin’s One other Nation.

It seems the household was on the town to catch Moses’s father Chris Martin’s band Coldplay carry out at one among 4 Milan exhibits throughout their world tour, however Moses may very well be mistaken for somebody straight out of the Italian metropolis’s style trade. He paired some schoolboy fundamentals with a thin black tie and crimson Adidas sneakers.

In case you’re questioning, Paltrow did strive a number of the café’s meals. She ordered an anchovy and tomato tartine with capers.

Regardless of having an Oscar to her identify, Paltrow hasn’t performed a lot performing these days. Except for some transient reprisals of her MCU character Pepper Potts, she’s hasn’t starred in a movie since 2015 and her final tv position was in 2020’s The Politician (co-created by her husband, Brad Falchuk).

“I actually don’t miss all of it,” Paltrow informed The At the moment Present final yr. “The staff is all the time making an attempt to get me to do a film, however I actually love what I do and I like how rapid it’s.”

However she’s additionally stated she’s certain she’ll return sometime. Possibly.

Maybe discovering herself surrounded by Anderson’s imaginative and prescient may encourage her? In any case, her position as Margot Tenenbaum appears to carry some significance for her. She as soon as stated it’s the one movie she’s ever made that she can truly watch. “I additionally actually hate, hate, hate seeing myself in a film, ever, and it’s type of like the one scene that I can watch of myself of my entire profession,” she stated.