Gwyneth Paltrow forgot she was in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'

Jon Favreau and Chef Roy Choi hilariously struggle to remind her.
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Netflix's The Chef Show has inadvertently provided the internet with a timeless Gwyneth Paltrow moment.

Paltrow appeared as a guest in the first episode of the cooking show hosted by Chef Roy Choi and her Iron Man director/co-actor Jon Favreau. As Decider's Meghan O'Keefe pointed out, Paltrow casually reveals while making a spicy pepper pot stew (!) that she's apparently blocked out her Spider-Man: Homecoming scene from memory.

Granted, she appears only in a small scene toward the end, and Marvel doesn't always loop in their own actors about what they're filming. But this is especially funny because Paltrow was billed above Marisa Tomei and Zendaya, who play the pivotal roles of Aunt May and MJ in the film and will reprise them for Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Favreau looks pretty stunned as he attempts to remind her that they shot for Homecoming together, because it's also where the idea for The Chef Show came about. Paltrow just can't recollect and confidently insists she wasn't in the movie but she was, in fact, in Avengers.

Choi chimes in to help Favreau out and says "Homecoming" to try to clue her in but it's not until Favreau reminds her of the exact scene she did that she remembers. It's cute!

Honestly, I don't blame her for forgetting her tiny Spider-Man scene part but remembering how excellent she was as Pepper Potts in Endgame.

Anyway, you can watch Paltrow pull a Chris O'Dowd and other episodes of The Chef Show on Netflix, which also features appearances by other MCU actors like Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland.

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