While there are ample ways to humiliate oneself in a social setting, this award interaction between Marvel stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Sebastian Stan has to be up there as one of the most cringe-worthy.
We’ve all been there: you introduce yourself to someone, only to be told that you’ve met before – several times, in fact. Well, that’s exactly what happened when the Goop founder “met” her Avengers co-star at the Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter show at Paris Fashion Week.
The social faux-pas was then shared to Stan’s Instagram account where it promptly went viral.
“Just barely managed to photobomb the great @pppiccioli and legend @realmrvalentino here … Thank you both for inviting me to my first couture show in France,” Stan captioned the pic.
And then, the kicker:
“Also glad I got to reintroduce myself to @gwynethpaltrow for the third time. We are in the same film …(shrug emoji).”
In the photo, Stan stood behind Paltrow, who sat on a sofa alongside fashion icons Valentino Garavani and Pierpaolo Piccioli. For the uninitiated: Stan portrayed ‘Bucky Barnes’ in the Captain America and Avengers films, where Paltrow plays ‘Pepper Potts’. They starred in two films together.
Incredibly, this isn’t the first time Paltrow’s appeared to blank her Marvel co-star. Just one month ago, the actress was caught on camera asking her publicist who Stan was during a red carpet event for their film Avengers: Infinity War. Ouch.
