"I think I would've known by now": Gwyneth Paltrow aka Pepper Potts opens up about her MCU career

Actor Gwyneth Paltrow has been associated with Marvel for long since 2008, with her role as Pepper Potts.

In a recent interview with Screenrant, the actor talked about her MCU career. She expressed how she feels surprised about the fact that she has starred in seven Marvel movies in the character of Pepper Potts.

Upon being asked if Gwyneth Paltrow will make an appearance as Pepper Potts in Captain America: Brave New World, she said:

"What is that? Oh, no. I don't think so. I think I would've known by now. I may. We'll see."

Let us find out what more the actor threw back about her MCU career.

"It's all a secret," says Gwyneth Paltrow about MCU casting

As Gwyneth Paltrow was thinking about her association with MCU for so many years, she got candid about it in an interview with Screenrant. She got reminiscent of the time when she finally realized she had appeared in seven movies, as she says:

"That can't be right. I can't have been in seven? Is that true? One time I didn't realize I was in Spider-Man. I was like doing a scene with Robert and Jon Favreau so I thought it was a cameo. They're like, 'it's another...' Anyway. And it turned out I was in Spider-Man and I didn't even realize."

When Gwyneth Paltrow was asked about whether she shall be joining Captain America: Brave New World, she playfully highlighted the high level of confidentiality the company maintains about its casting as a "top secret." Paltrow explains:

"What is that? Oh, no. I don't think so. I think I would've known by now. I may. We'll see. They keep it all very top secret, you know. They think they're the CIA or something over there. That it's like national secrets. Like who's doing what and who. That's why I didn't know I was in Spider-Man! 'Cause they never said. There were no signs that said 'Spider-Man'. The script didn't say 'Spider-Man'. It's all a secret.

Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in the role of Pepper Potts first in the year 2008, in Iron Man.

Then it was followed by Iron Man 2 (2010), The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and her last appearance to date as Pepper Potts in the MCU would be in Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Virginia "Pepper" Potts, a.k.a. Rescue, is a businesswoman and a superhero who operates the company of Tony Stark.