Gwyneth Paltrow is countersuing Terry Sanderson for $1 following his claims that she intentionally injured him during a 2016 ski collision, an amount that lawyers wonder was inspired by Taylor Swift.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar for best actress thanks to her role in “Shakespeare in Love,” but it was Julia Roberts who was originally courted for the role of Viola de Lesseps. Producer Edward Zwick recently published a first-person essay for Air Mail about the the making of “Shakespeare in Love.” The director behind “Glory” and “Legends of the Fall” championed the film from the beginning, coordinating with Marc Norman on the original script and getting famed playwright Tom Stoppard to come onboard to do a re-write. Zwick also bore witness to Julia Roberts joining and abandoning the project in spectacular fashion. According to Zwick, Universal Pictures only agreed to put down money for the film when Julia Roberts expressed interest in starring in the lead role. As Zwick wrote, “The mere possibility of having the ‘Pretty Woman’ wearing a corseted gown got the studio excited enough to cough up the dough. Ten weeks later I was back in London, where a xeroxed copy of Stoppard’s first draft was waiting in my fancy hotel room.”
Zwick later traveled to London with Roberts, where the two were heading so that Roberts could perform chemistry reads with several actors being lined up to play William Shakespeare. Zwick said that Roberts became obsessed with casting Daniel Day-Lewis in the role, even though Day-Lewis already told Zwick that he was committed to filming “In the Name of the Father” with his “My Left Foot” director Jim Sheridan. “He’s brilliant — he’s handsome and intense. And so funny!” Zwick recalled Roberts telling him. “Did you see his performance in ‘A Room with a View?’ He’s done Shakespeare, too. Don’t you think he’d be perfect?…I can get him to do it.” Zwick said that almost
Gwyneth Paltrow is countersuing Terry Sanderson for $1 following his claims that she intentionally injured him during a 2016 ski collision, an amount that lawyers wonder was inspired by Taylor Swift.
“I was skiing and looking down hill, as you do and I was skied directly into by Mr. Sanderson,” insisted Gwyneth Paltrow today in a Park City courtroom.
suing the Oscar-winning actress for $300,000 (£250,000) over the incident at the Deer Valley ski resort in Utah in 2016, alleging she crashed into him and caused severe and long-lasting brain injuries. The third day of the civil lawsuit began with a video deposition from Dr Alina Fong, a neuropsychologist, who said that Mr Sanderson had presented “a myriad” of symptoms indicative of having suffered a concussion nearly a year after the accident. However, during cross-examination, Stephen Owens, Paltrow’s attorney, pointed out that Dr Fong never actually examined Mr Sanderson’s prior medical records.
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Gwyneth Paltrow's accuser "pretty much" lost his love of life after the actress allegedly crashed into the back of him in a skiing hit-and-run, a US court has been told. Terry Sanderson, 76, is suing the Hollywood star for $300,000 (£244,000), claiming she was "out of control" and hit him, causing him to suffer a brain injury, four broken ribs and other serious injuries. Paltrow, 50 is also accused of leaving the scene without saying a word after the collision at the Deer Valley Resort in Utah on 26 February 2016.
Julia Roberts and Richard Gere established themselves as two of Hollywood's biggest and brightest with the success of their 1990 film Pretty Woman – and three decades on (33 years to the day, to be exact), the pair have changed a lot.A commercial and critical smash, the film cemented Richard as a leading man and the upcoming Julia as one of the industry's newest stars. Julia and Richard became global stars after the release of the 1990 smash hitBoth have since become some of the topmost draws in Hollywood, even collaborating once again almost a decade later in another romantic-comedy, 1999's Runaway Bride.MORE: Julia Roberts praises 'one of a kind' daughter Hazel as she talks about her family lifeJulia has starred in several other commercial hits over the course of her career, including the Ocean's franchise, Eat Pray Love (2010), and August: Osage County (2013).
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regarding a 2016 skiing incident in Utah, but the Goop founder became the butt of the joke on Twitter for her “Jeffrey Dahmer glasses.”According to the plaintiff, retired optometrist Dr. Terry Sanderson, the “Shakespeare in Love” actress was skiing “out of control” on a slope at Deer Valley Resort in Utah, when she collided with him and continued to go down the hill.Sanderson said that the then-43-year-old left him with a “brain injury, four broken ribs and other serious injuries,” and filed a lawsuit against Paltrow in 2019.For the first day of testimonies, Paltrow arrived at court wearing retro-style aviator glasses, which drew comparisons to serial killer Dahmer.Paltrow has previously worn the spectacles — a $289 pair from the brand Caddis and also sold on her Goop website — but Twitter users couldn’t help but make fun of the wellness guru.“I like her serial killer vibe,” commented one person on Instagram.
Actress and Goop CEO Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in court Tuesday for the first day of a civil trial over claims she seriously injured a man in a skiing accident in Park City, Utah, in 2016.
Seven years after Gwyneth Paltrow’s skiing accident occurred in Utah, the lawsuit is officially headed to court.
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