United Kingdom, Dec. 23 -- Gwyneth Paltrow accepted her role in Marty Supreme to be "close to" her children.

The 53-year-old actress hadn't appeared in a movie for six years but she was tempted by the idea of playinng a glamorous starlet in Josh Safdie's new movie because filming fell during a time she had an "empty nest" with her kids Apple, 21, and 19-year-old Moses - who she has with ex-husband Chris Martin - away at college, and in a location close to where they are studying.

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 b...