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Blythe Danner did an interview with The Today Show yesterday to promote her new movie I’ll See you in My Dreams. You can see the interview here – it’s not really important, although I do enjoy Blythe in general. As she discussed her movie, she got some questions about her Goopy daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow. And Blythe sort of let it slip that she thinks she raised a woman so extraordinary that people only criticize her daughter because we’re intimidated by her.

Too much of a good thing? Gwyneth Paltrow gets a lot of flak for being, well, Gwyneth Paltrow, but her mom, for one, thinks that’s just proof of how great the actress really is. During an interview on the Today show to promote her new movie, I’ll See You in My Dreams, Blythe Danner told Natalie Morales that she thinks her daughter attracts criticism because people are “intimidated” by her success.

By her own admission, the Little Fockers star, 72, doesn’t keep up with everything that’s written about her family online. But she figures “so much of it is just trying to sell papers or whatever that’s called over the Internet.”

As for Paltrow, her daughter with the late Bruce Paltrow? “I know she’s the most extraordinary girl who can do everything,” Danner gushed of the Goop founder, a mom herself to daughter Apple, 10, and Moses, 9. “Incredible mother, she’s raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for my husband’s oral cancer foundation — things she doesn’t talk about a lot.”

Danner added that Paltrow is becoming a “great environmentalist,” telling Morales: “I’m so proud of her. I think she’s so accomplished that people get kind of intimidated by it.”

[From Us Weekly]

I’ve always thought the mother-daughter dynamic between Gwyneth and Blythe was interesting, but I always believed that Blythe was a pretty cool person and Gwyneth just turned out to be one of the biggest snobs and elitists in the world out of nowhere. But I think we have to admit that Blythe might have had a hand in it. Blythe was the mom telling Gwyneth at a very young age that people were just jealous of her, that they were intimidated by her amazingness. Sigh…

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