Gwyneth—whose exes also include Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck—and Chris’ love story began before they even met. As the Iron Man actress explained on the podcast, she became a huge fan of Coldplay after their debut studio album Parachutes was released in 2000. One day, when she was filming a movie in London, Gwyneth heard them playing during a televised broadcast of one of their shows.
“When I heard the music, I had this very powerful reaction to it,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘This is incredible.’ And I watched their whole thing, and I was like, ‘This band is going to be huge.'”
After learning that Coldplay was going to be performing in the U.S., Gwyneth and her friend went to one of their concerts, which sparked romance rumors between her and Chris.
“Because I was there, someone wrote in the newspaper that we were dating,” the Shakespeare in Love star remembered. “We had never met, and I was like, ‘What?’ He’s like five years younger than me. And I was like, ‘Please. We’re not dating. I just went to this thing.’ But they kept writing it all summer, all summer all summer.”
