Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow has joined the cast of “Iron Man,” a Marvel Comics superhero movie starring Robert Downey Jr.

Downey plays the armor-clad title character and his alter ego, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark. Terrence Howard will play Stark’s best friend Rhodey.

Paltrow will play Stark’s personal assistant Virginia “Pepper” Potts, one of the few people in Stark’s life who can go toe-to-toe with him and who occasionally serves as his conscience. The pair also share a secret attraction to each other.

“Her representatives let us know that she wanted to do a movie like this,” said Kevin Feige, Marvel’s president of production. “A few phone calls later from all parties involved, and over the weekend it happened.”

Jon Favreau is directing the movie, which will be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Production is scheduled to begin in March in Los Angeles.

Paltrow, who won an Oscar for her work in “Shakespeare in Love,” most recently appeared in “Running With Scissors.”

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MAN she wears alotta black.

You never see her with her hubby anymore…

Apple’s getting big!! I wish we could see her face..

Gwyneth Paltrow has taken her New York home off the market after just a day - amid claims she made unpatriotic comments. The backtrack over Shallow Hal star Paltrow and husband Chris Martin’s Manhattan pad - which they had listed for $13.75 million - coincides with an interview at a press event in Spain, where she is reported to have made “anti-American” comments. But the actress insists she was misquoted, saying, “I feel so proud to be American. I am a New York girl.” And her representative insists if it was offered for sale, it was by mistake, telling the New York Daily News, “She just finished decorating most of the place.”

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