Gwyneth Paltrow and Jacob Elordi engaged in a wide-ranging conversation for Variety & CNN’s Actors on Actors series.

The Marty Supreme actress, 53, and the Frankenstein star, 28, appeared on the Tuesday, December 9, episode and discussed the moment Paltrow briefly stepped away from acting.

“You took a seven-year break,” Elordi pointed out. “Was that a feeling of ‘I have to get away from this?’”

Paltrow replied, “I felt a lot of loneliness when I was doing it in my 20s. I didn’t know myself well yet, and I was traveling all the time. I needed to grow up and understand who I really was, and I got a lot of those answers through my family. Then I started a business.”

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