Gwyneth Paltrow Jokes About Using Her Oscar as Doorstop

Gwyneth Paltrow is putting her Oscar statuette to work.

During an interview with Vogue for a “73 Questions” video, the actress, 51, revealed she uses her trophy — which she won for Best Actress in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love — as a doorstop.

In the video, which was filmed over the summer at her home in the Hamptons, Paltrow led interviewer Joe Sabia to her garden. As the pair passed through a doorway, the camera paused on an Oscar on the ground, propping a door open.

“What a beautiful Academy Award,” Sabia said.

Paltrow turned around with a smile and joked, “My doorstop. It works perfectly!”

Sabia referenced the Oscar’s double duty again later in the video, after the actress was asked about the whereabouts of the red velvet Gucci suit she wore to the 1996 MTV VMAs.

“It’s in my closet in California,” Paltrow said of the iconic suit, which she re-wore to a 2021 Gucci show.

“So you’re not using it to hold any doors around here?” Sabia joked, as Paltrow laughed and said, “Not currently.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Paltrow was asked about her favorite movie role. “Oh gosh, I was so lucky. I’ve had so many amazing roles,” she said.

She did, however, pinpoint a favorite line of dialogue from among all the characters she’s portrayed over the years. “Probably from The Royal Tenenbaums when Margot says, ‘You probably don’t even know my middle name,’ ” she revealed.

Paltrow also shared the moment that first sparked her interest in becoming an actress. “Probably watching my mother [Blythe Danner] do plays when I was very little at the Williamstown Theater Festival,” she recalled.

Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Sabia asked Paltrow which of her many movies she would actually sit through and watch in its entirety. “Maybe Emma,” she replied, referencing her 1996 turn as the Jane Austen heroine.

The Goop founder also answered what she misses most about being a leading lady in Hollywood: “Nothing,” she said matter of factly.

Back in May, Paltrow opened up about her Oscar win, revealing that she experienced an “identity crisis” after the career highlight.

“I just wanted to be successful and to be well-regarded. I was on this really fast track and it all happened so quickly,” she said while appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast. “For somebody like me, who I think I was working through a lot of the harder parts of my growing up through achieving success.”

“Once I won the Oscar, it put me into a little bit of an identity crisis, because if you win the biggest prize, like what are you supposed to do?” she continued. “And where are you supposed to go? It was hard, like, the amount of attention that you receive on a night like that and the weeks following is so disorienting and, frankly, really unhealthy.”

While she recognizes the achievement, Paltrow said she was overwhelmed by the experience.

“Not that I would give it back or anything, it was an amazing experience, but it kind of called a lot of things into question for me,” she explained.