Avengers: Doomsday Star Robert Downey Jr. Says Gwyneth Paltrow Is 'Forever Confused by the Basic Tenets of the Marvel Universe and Its Inhabitants,' and Forgot Who Tom Holland Was Despite Filming Several Movies With Him

Robert Downey Jr. has discussed his Marvel co-star Gwyneth Paltrow's trouble keeping way of the MCU's galore characters — including a infinitesimal erstwhile she forgot Peter Parker's real-life identity. (It's Tom Holland.)

Speaking astatine The Hollywood Reporter's 2025 Women successful Entertainment gala, wherever Downey Jr. presented Paltrow with an award, the Iron Man and Avengers: Doomsday histrion said his on-screen spouse was "impossibly intelligent, but everlastingly confused by the basal tenets of the Marvel Universe and its inhabitants."

Specifically, Downey Jr. recalled 1 incidental wherever Paltrow pointed retired a peculiar histrion and asked him who it was. "'Who's that?'" Downey Jr. recalled Paltrow questioning, "'He said his sanction is Peter.' 'No, his character's sanction is Peter. That's Tom Holland, you did 4 movies with him.'"

Paltrow and Downey Jr. pictured unneurotic this week. Image credit: Stefanie Keenan/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images.

This isn't the archetypal anecdote regarding Paltrow's disorder surrounding her Marvel projects. The histrion antecedently denied appearing successful Spider-Man: Homecoming, contempt sharing scenes with Downey Jr. and Tom Holland successful the movie.

More intriguingly, perhaps, Downey Jr. mentions 4 movies present — contempt the information that Paltrow and Holland person lone worked unneurotic connected 3 projects that person really been released (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame). Was this conscionable an mistake oregon exaggeration? Or person the brace worked unneurotic again connected the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday?

Paltrow's Marvel quality Pepper Potts has not been seen since Avengers: Endgame, though the Stark Industries CEO was referenced again precocious successful Deadpool & Wolverine. Paltrow was believed to person semi-retired from acting, until her engagement successful this year's Timothée Chalamet-starring Marty Supreme was announced.

Could Paltrow beryllium tempted backmost into the MCU erstwhile more? With Downey Jr. backmost too, albeit arsenic the villainous Doctor Doom alternatively than the precocious Tony Stark, it would surely marque for an absorbing on-screen reunion — arsenic agelong arsenic idiosyncratic ensures Paltrow knows who Doctor Doom is, anyway.

Image credit: Stefanie Keenan/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images.

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