Gwyneth Paltrow Offered Timothée Chalamet Acne Advice; He Replied 'Are You Insane?'

The queen of wellness made a major skincare blunder. Gwyneth Paltrow offered Timothée Chalamet unsolicited advice for his "acne scars"—only to be told, "Are you insane?" The scars, it turned out, were just incredibly realistic movie makeup.

The hilarious mix-up happened during the first few days of shooting their upcoming film, Marty Supreme. Recalling the story on The Awardist podcast, Paltrow explained that she was shocked to see what she thought were pockmarks on Chalamet's face. "I was like, I didn't realize that he has this scarring on his face," she said. Acting out of kindness, the Goop founder suggested he try micro-needling to help.

A Case of Mistaken Identity

Paltrow's well-intentioned advice was met with a blunt, comical response. "And then he's like, 'Are you insane? Like, this is makeup,'" she recounted, laughing. "He's like, 'I have good skin.' I was like, 'I'm so sorry.'" She later doubled down on Vogue's podcast, admitting, "The makeup was so good that I thought he had little acne scars... I was like, 'Oh, s---.'"

In the Josh Safdie-directed film, Chalamet, 29, plays a ping-pong prodigy, while Paltrow, 52, portrays Kay Stone, a fading movie star and wealthy socialite. Paltrow has teased a complex and charged relationship between the two characters, telling Vanity Fair, "We have a lot of sex in this movie. There's a lot — a lot."