Mila and JLaw the reel deal of Hollywood cool

These days, we want our celebrities to be approachable and authentic. Ahead of tonight’s Oscars, Louise O’Neill explains why ‘real’ is the new cool in Hollywood.

IN the mid-1990s, Gwyneth Paltrow was the queen of ‘young Hollywood’. Beautiful and talented, she was the daughter of acting ‘royalty’, possessed of such impeccable pedigree that she referred to Steven Spielberg as ‘Uncle Steven’.

On the red carpet, she embodied the archetypal ‘Hitchcockian blonde’, a modern-day reincarnation of Grace Kelly, detached and untouchable.