Marty Supreme: Timothée Chalamet Plays Ping Pong in Josh Safdie’s 1950s-Set Movie

‘Marty Supreme’ Trailer: Timothée Chalamet Plays Ping Pong in Josh Safdie’s 1950s-Set Movie

'Marty Supreme'
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The trailer for Josh Safdie’s eagerly anticipated film Marty Supreme features two-time Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet as ping pong player Marty Mauser in the 1950s.

The synopsis teases: “A young man with a dream no one respects goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.”

Chalamet stars in the film with Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays a famous movie star that Marty begins an affair with on the road.

The cast also includes Fran Drescher as Marty’s mother, rapper Tyler, the Creator, magician Penn Jillette, Odessa A’zion, “Shark Tank” personality Kevin O’Leary (aka Mr. Wonderful) and “Bad Lieutenant” filmmaker Abel Ferrara.

Josh Safdie wrote “Marty Supreme” with Ronald Bronstein; the two produce alongside Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Chalamet and A24.
The sports dramedy is a fictionalized account of the real-life Marty Reisman, a five-time bronze medalist at the World Table Tennis Championships who died in 2012. Cinematographer Darius Khondji noted that Chalamet did thorough training to play the ping pong star. “He wanted to be like a real [professional] ping pong player when he started shooting,” Khondji said.

Chalamet has been a fan of the Safdie brothers, writing in 2019 about their Adam Sandler thriller “Uncut Gems.” “The pair have continuously put out contemporary, raw and untethered work over the last decade, each film building on the traits of the prior, but never once sacrificing their innate grittiness,” the Oscar-nominated actor wrote.

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