Gwyneth Paltrow accepted her role in Marty Supreme to be "close to" her children

She told Extra: "I hadn't really caught the acting bug again, but Josh Safdie is so brilliant and it dovetailed with a time when all the kids are in college and I had an empty nest, and I thought, 'Gosh, maybe this would be a fun thing or interesting thing to be in New York and be close to the kids.'

"So, it just worked out in a really serendipitous way."

Last year, paparazzi photos circulated from filming, which featured Gwyneth kissing her 29-year-old co-star Timothee Chalamet and her daughter was thrilled by the viral moment.

She said: "Honestly, when you shoot in Central Park, there are so many paparazzi around you're just trying to focus on what you're doing.

"My daughter thought it was very bad-ass and my son was like, 'Mom, my God, this is too much.' "

The Goop founder - who is married to Brad Falchuk - previously admitted Moses covered his eyes during her sex scenes when she took him to the Marty Supreme premiere in Los Angeles earlier this month.

During an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, she was asked how the teen handled the film's sex scenes and she replied: "Not great".

She went on to crouch over and put her hands over her eyes, adding: "He was like this the entire time. He's not into that."

Gwyneth went on to recall her own embarrassing moment when she took her grandfather to see her film Shakespeare In Love which featured a topless scene.

She told the host: "You know, it's funny because you grow up doing these things in movies. I remember once that I was so scared because I was taking my grandfather to see the premiere of Shakespeare In Love, and I was like: 'I have this topless scene, grandpa, but it's part of the thing because they think I'm a boy'.

"And I was trying to, like, prep him for the whole thing, and he just goes: 'Ah, I seen it before. Two eggs, sunny side up'. So I was trying to think of something like that to say to my son, but I couldn't think of it."