Gwyneth Wants White-Trash Role
September 26 -- Hollywood royalty Gwyneth Paltrow keeps trying to offset her real-life typecasting as a wealthy socialite, echoing other glam girls like Sharon Stone and Julia Roberts who yearn to play common folk.
Paltrow, who just played a dim-witted Las Vegas chorus girl in her father's Duets, is eyeing a romantic comedy in which she'd star as a small-town woman whose biggest dream is to become a flight attendant. Isn't that sweet? Believable, no, but sweet, yes.
The Miramax project is View From the Top, to be directed by Oscar-nominated Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto. It would take Paltrow's character from obscure trailer park trash beginnings (!) to the exclusive ranks of the international jet set. Start cramming in those Mallow-mars and Mickey's Big Mouth brewskis now, Gwyneth, or we ain't buying it.
The always-fashionable Gwynnie is still sorting out her next project, which could be the literary diva powerhouse The Hours, the indie flick The Royal Tenenbaums, or Shallow Hal, in which she'd play a woman who's grotesquely unattractive.
She's currently filming the British literary romance Possession, which reunites her with her Emma love interest, Jeremy Northam.
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