<p><br /> As Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon have done before her, Gwyneth Paltrow has taken on a singing role for her upcoming movie, Country Strong.<br /> </p><p><br /> "The study of the voice was quite a challenge because I could always sing a bit and I have good pitch and I had a nice kind of voice, but my singing teacher really kicked the [pauses] out of me. She was like, 'there's a big voice in there and we're going to get it out.' It was very emotional and it was hard."<br /> </p><p><br /> In Country Strong, Oscar winning actress Gwyneth plays country singer Kelly Canter who leaves rehab early to work on her comeback tour.<br /> </p><p><br /> However Kelly keeps falling off the wagon no matter how much support she has from fans and loved ones, a mentality Gwyneth says she struggled to get her head around.<br /> </p><p><br /> "I couldn't understand how you could be so drunk that you could wreck people's lives and then just wake up the next day. I struggled with that," the 38-year-old said.<br /> </p><p><br /> And so Gwyneth called on her Iron Man co-star Robert Downey Junior, who himself has struggled with and recovered from addiction, for some words of advice.<br /> </p><p><br /> "I asked Robert Downey how does this work? And he was really articulate about addiction and the psychology of it and it sort of helped me a lot."<br /> </p><p><br /> Country Strong, which also stars country singer Tim McGraw, is out in UK cinemas in March 2011.<br /> </p>
