Felicity Huffman: “Once a week we do sit down and make sure we take half an hour — each person gets 15 minutes — just to talk, with no crosstalk. I talk, then you talk… You kind of just deeply check in with the other person. When you have 15 minutes to talk — which is endless, by the way, and if you want to sit there in silence you can — but when you have 15 minutes to talk, you kind of actually see what’s going on with the other person without any talk-back.”
The couple often works together, all the way back to their careers in theater, and held on to another rule that was eventually thrown out the window: no acting talk in bed.
“I have to say I love Goop. It always makes me feel terrible… It makes me feel inadequate. But I love going on it — it’s something I guess to aspire to. And [Paltrow’s] cookbooks are the best thing ever… Well everybody can be made to feel inadequate.. Everyone’s kind of walking around frightened and feeling less than. But no, [Goop] is pretty much the only site that I check on. It’s awesome. [Paltrow] is amazing. I love her.”