Brittany Murphy and Gwyneth Paltrow

Writer and director, Alek Keshishian had Gwyneth Paltrow in mind to play Emily ‘Jacks’ Jackson in his new romantic comedy Love and Other Disasters. Her character was to be an assistant to the editor in chief of British Vogue. The problem is that it took Keshishian 10 years to complete the script.

“By the time I finished, [Paltrow] was pregnant,” Keshishian told Planet Gossip’s Matt Donnelly at last night’s Outfest premiere of the movie at the DGA Theatre Complex in West Hollywood. “So I thought, okay, you’re now officially too old to play this role.”

Is Paltrow, 34, really that long in the tooth? No, says Keshishian, but the slightly younger 29-year-old Murphy eventually got the part because the character “is meant to be a kind of young girl, before she figures out love.”

Ouch! That must have hurt! Not to worry about Gwyneth though. She has an appearance in the movie anyway and gets to have a hot, steamy love scene with Orlando Bloom. So she can’t have too much to complain about.

E!Online

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