Primeiro, há a questão do contrato dela.
Há também a questão de que, de acordo com Paltrow, seu contrato com a Marvel terminou com o Iron Man 3.
While it was widely assumed that Gwyneth Paltrow was another star who had been signed up for a ridiculous number of Marvel movies, she has now told Empire Online that her contract expired with Iron Man 3! "My deal is over as well," she revealed when asked whether she think Robert Downey Jr. will make a return as the armoured Avenger. "When they signed us, they signed us for three. So that's it for the moment, but you never know." However, wasn't The Avengers her third appearance as Pepper Potts?! It turns out that she actually did that as a favour (although it would obviously be more than a little naive to assume she wasn't paid for the privilege).
Mas, como CBM menciona, ela fez uma quarta aparição apesar de não ser contratualmente obrigada, então é concebível que ela poderia / poderia ter feito outra aparição rápida se fosse perguntada. Mas ...
As primeiras indicações foram de que Paltrow não foi perguntado.
Parece que Joss simplesmente não tinha uma razão para ela aparecer.
A entrevista é bem antiga, mas Paltrow disse que ela nunca foi perguntada .
I don't think so, nobody has asked me- What is it called? 'Age of Ultron,' okay. Well, no, I don't think so. I haven't heard any...my phone has not rung for 'Avengers 2.'
No entanto, o comentário do filme faz soar como se houvesse conflitos de agendamento.
Durante a cena em que Thor e Tony discutem a ausência de Jane e Pepper, ele explica:
There are many versions of this scene, some of them including the actresses. One of the great things about working with this many stars is that you never know who you're going to get - what schedule is going to work out, who is going to come available, or who... and so when it became apparent that neither was going to show up, I thought it was important to plant a flag on that and say, you know it was something that registers with our guys, and the best way to do that was to have them be dicks about it.