Posted on 07/02/2009 2:07:46 PM PDT by purpleporter
The Oscar-winning actress says she traveled to Spain as a teenager, fell in love with the country, and embraces the culture to the point that she visits at least once a year and makes sure her young children, Apple and Moses, also speak the language.
"When I was 15, I went to a small town outside Talavera de la Reina and I had the most wonderful experience. It really changed my life," Paltrow said in fluent Spanish during a recent interview.
Paltrow said Spain "became a second home."
"It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible," she said.
"Also, the way people live over there. They seem to enjoy life a little bit more. They aren't running around as much as in New York. They enjoy time with the family. They don't always have their Blackberries on."
Paltrow remains close to the family she lived with in Spain, calling them "my Spanish mother" and "my brothers" from Spain. Her success as an actress, she says, hasn't impressed them.
The 36-year-old actress, who is married to Coldplay's Chris Martin, says she talks to her children in Spanish.
"Moses speaks a little bit, but understands everything. Apple speaks a lot," she says.
Paltrow shot "Spain ... on the Road Again" with chef Mario Batali, cooking expert Mark Bittman and actress Claudia Bassols. They traveled throughout the country, sampling traditional foods and praising the virtues of Spain, its people and cuisine.
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Reporting everytime a Hollyweirdo says something stupid gets kind of old.
Just sayin’.
She also has no clue how to use a Blackberry.
If brains were dynamite, Paltrow would barely be able to sneeze.
Brad Pitt dumped her ass because she didn’t know how to properly use silverware.
many think that that coont Gwen doesn’t have a brain
Yes. It was conquored by Islamists who converted the public by sword and established a Western capital for the Islamic empire.
Eventually people were able to overthrow the invaders. There are still Islamists who want to pray muslim prayers at historic Christian churches. "A mosque once stood here" on the grounds of a destroyed church.
No criticism except naming her kid Apple.
Face it there are far older cultures and we can’t readily compete with 500 bc or anything earlier than 1492 except for native Americans.
If you know a little history, Spain’s is facinating. And yes I hope there are still small villages in places like Spain where people live WAY differently than in NYC.
Plus, she’s a piece.
Stupid limousine liberal. She probably thinks she’s always being driven around in empty tunnels rather than the windows being tinted.
I can understand this.
"I'm an actress!"
- yeah? so?!
Why be bitter when the Islamist were thrown out of Spain?
A piece or a tool?
“Also, the way people live over there. They seem to enjoy life a little bit more. They aren’t running around as much as in New York. They enjoy time with the family. They don’t always have their Blackberries on.”
Of course, if she’d get out of New York City, and travel around, she might actually see a bit of real America.
She could go to St. Augustine Florida. Or Montreal Quebec. Or how about the American southwest?
It's easier to do that when the country can divert its military spending towards socialism because the United States is Europe's protector.
-PJ
I have been to Spain, the main thing I remember is the exhaust fumes from cars, trucks and buses when you are outside and cigarette smoke when you were inside.
Oh yeah, I remember the food..... it was crappy.
She should see America first.
And if she went to the sparse areas of “flyover country”, she might find areas with little radio and weak cellphone coverage.
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