Forget Tom Holland: Gwyneth Paltrow Didn’t Recognize an Oscar-Nominated Avengers: Endgame Co-Star

Gwyneth Paltrow has been in a lot of movies. Totally fair that not every face sticks in the brain. But forgetting Sebastian Stan multiple times and not realizing she was in Spider-Man? That is a run.

Sebastian Stan: the repeat introduction

Stan, who is up for Best Actor at the 2025 Oscars for The Apprentice, has actually shared the screen universe with Paltrow more than once (Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame). And yet, in 2019 he turned a very relatable celebrity moment into a joke: at Paris Fashion Week, he posted a group photo with Valentino Garavani, Pierpaolo Piccioli, and Paltrow, and teased her for blanking on him again.

"Also glad I got to reintroduce myself to @gwynethpaltrow for the third time. We are in the same film..."

The Infinity War premiere clip

A year earlier, cameras caught Paltrow at the Avengers: Infinity War premiere asking, basically, who that guy was — the guy being Stan. A tweet that went around in June 2019 claimed she asked her publicist. In the full moment, she is actually talking to Chris Pratt, who calmly explains Stan’s MCU role while she processes it. It is both funny and very on-brand for an actor parachuted into MCU crossovers.

Tom Holland, meet... Tom Holland

Stan is not the only Marvel alum to get memory-holed. In a PopSugar interview, Tom Holland said he had only worked with Paltrow once, on Spider-Man: Homecoming, and that she did not remember it — which, as he told it, still kind of broke his heart. Paltrow then posted a birthday selfie for Robert Downey Jr. with Holland standing right there and playfully captioned it so Holland became the unnamed "other guy" in the shot. Brutal. Funny, but brutal.

She even lost track of her own Marvel tally

During a Vanity Fair sit-down about her career highlights, Paltrow was told she ended up in seven Marvel movies. She looked genuinely stunned and pushed back, then realized, yes, the number is real. The one that slipped completely? Homecoming. She figured she was just doing a quick scene with Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau and did not clock that it was for a Spider-Man film. Her defense: Marvel keeps everything so locked down, it feels like working under classified conditions — titles redacted, scripts stripped, the whole deal. Honestly, that tracks.

For the record, here is the full list she was reacting to:

• Iron Man (2008)
• Iron Man 2 (2010)
• The Avengers (2012)
• Iron Man 3 (2013)
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
• Avengers: Endgame (2019)

So what is the verdict — genuinely forgetful, or fabulously unbothered? Either way, if Sebastian Stan says hi at the next event, odds are there will be a fourth introduction and another great caption.