Who can forget Gwyneth Paltrow's 1999 Oscars speech when she won Best Actress for her role in Shakespeare in Love? The tears, the dress, the extra long list of loved ones. It was awards speech gold. Yep, Gwyneth was once one of the most famous actors on the Hollywood circuit but, all of a sudden, she largely disappeared from the big screen.

The Goop founder has now opened up about why she hasn't starred in many movies since her 2005 film Proof, telling SiriusXM’s Bruce Bozzi on 'Quarantined with Bruce' that she fell out of love with acting.

"I think that when you hit the bullseye, when you're 26 years old and you're a metrics driven person who, frankly, doesn't love acting that much as it turns out," Gwyneth explained. "I sort of felt like, well, now who am I supposed to be? Like, what am I, what am I driving towards?"

She went on, "Part of the shine of acting wore off, you know, being in such intense public scrutiny, being a kid who's like living every breakup on every headline, like being criticised for everything you do, say and wear. And it's so transitory, you're always all over. It's hard to plant roots."

The mum-of-two said she loves being at home with her family, so travelling around the world and spending weeks on location was the opposite of what she wanted.

"Like I'm such a homebody, you know, me, I like to be with my old friends and cook and squeeze my kids. Like I don't want to be alone in a hotel room in Budapest for six weeks," she said. "Like, it's just not who I am."

Without referencing former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein by name, she continued, "So if you compound those things with the fact that, to be totally candid, I had a really rough boss for most of my movie career at Miramax... Like, so you take all those things, you're like, 'I don't know if this is really my calling.'"

She's not totally quit acting altogether, of course, and fans can still see her in The Politician and the Iron Man movies - or, alternatively, you can buy a Goop candle that smells like her vagina and her orgasm.

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