Gwyneth Paltrow took to Instagram on Thursday to reminisce about her experiences in Italy.
The Oscar-winning star said the Boot holds a place in her heart as it is where her father Bruce Paltrow died and also where second husband Brad Falchuk proposed. And she shared a lovely throwback video showing her roaming throughout the European country.
In the lengthy caption, the 47-year-old tied it in to the tragedy the European country is facing from the coronavirus pandemic with an encouraging message urging her followers to ‘heed these very real warnings so that this unprecedented crisis might pass quickly.’
Italy lover: Gwyneth Paltrow took to Instagram Thursday to reminisce about her experiences in Italy, which have run the gamut from being proposed to all the way to losing a parent, with a lovely throwback video
Tour de Gwyn: The video shows a youthful Gwyneth driving through the hills of Tuscany, sipping on espresso, making cheese and partaking in a lot more lovely Italian activities
The video, which she titled ‘A Love Letter to Italy,’ shows a youthful Gwyneth in a striped black and white sweater driving through the hills of Tuscany, sipping on espresso, making cheese and partaking in a lot more lovely Italian activities.
In the caption, the Politician actress reflected, ‘My first trip to Italy was at the end of 1991. I had miraculously booked a TV movie that would start in the new year, so I quit my job at the fish restaurant in Santa Monica, borrowed money from my agent, and hopped on a plane.’
Gwyneth went on to reminisce about her first trip to Italy, which made quite an impression on her, and then she remembered that her ‘next trip there was a few years later, when we moved to Rome to start preproduction on The Talented Mr. Ripley. I spent months succumbing to the delicious wildness of the south, with its incredible food and warm-hearted entropy.
Land of plenty: ‘Italy is a place we return to over and over,’ the GOOP owner wrote. ‘It is a country that believes deeply in the artisan, the family, the handmade, slow-grown quality of its goods’
The best: ‘We make our G. Label clothing in its factories and, as it turns out, stock up on its low-temp-dried pasta, Neapolitan tomatoes, and fragrant olive oil during times at home,’ she added
Manga: In these unsure times: In the caption, Gwyneth tied it to our current times with an encouraging message urging folks to ‘heed these very real warnings so that this unprecedented crisis might pass quickly’
She sure can cook: Here the Emma actress is seen grabbing a potato
‘As it’s transpired, I have had some of life’s most profound happenings occur in Italy: My father died in Rome when we were on a road trip for my thirtieth birthday; Brad proposed to me in Umbria in 2017.’
‘Italy is a place we return to over and over,’ the GOOP owner wrote. ‘It is a country that believes deeply in the artisan, the family, the handmade, slow-grown quality of its goods. We make our G. Label clothing in its factories and, as it turns out, stock up on its low-temp-dried pasta, Neapolitan tomatoes, and fragrant olive oil during times at home.’
Then, Paltrow touches specifically on the coronavirus outbreak, which began in China but quickly propagated in Italy soon after.
Coastline: Gwyneth went on to reminisce about her first trip to Italy and then she remembered that her ‘next trip there was a few years later, when we moved to Rome to start preproduction on The Talented Mr. Ripley. I spent months succumbing to the delicious wildness of the south, with its incredible food and warm-hearted entropy’; in 1999
Loved up: ‘As it’s transpired, I have had some of life’s most profound happenings occur in Italy: My father died in Rome when we were on a road trip for my thirtieth birthday; Brad proposed to me in Umbria in 2017.’ Seen with Brad in September
‘When this crisis started, we held Italy, China, South Korea, Iran, and the other countries affected in our prayers, and now we have all followed suit,’ she wrote.
‘Each of these places has shown us what strength, resilience, and community can do during these surreal times, strictly restricting movement, with some even singing from their balconies,’ Gwyneth continued.
‘I wish for all of us to heed these very real warnings so that this unprecedented crisis might pass quickly.
‘Stay home. Make pasta. FaceTime your grandma,’ she concluded. ‘We will get through this.’
The post is a much more appropriate contribution than Paltrow’s Goop brand’s now-deleted Instagram share last Friday, which showed a picture of Gwyneth in an expensive G.Label outfit with a ‘tap to shop’ option that followers immediately labeled as extremely tone-deaf.
Improvement: The post is a much more appropriate contribution than Paltrow’s Goop brand’s now-deleted promotional Insta share last Friday, which followers immediately labeled as tone-deaf
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