US EditionREVIEW: Timothée Chalamet soars as falling rising star in 'Marty Supreme'
- Timothée Chalamet headlines A24's Marty Supreme as a ping-pong hustler set in 1950s Lower East Side Manhattan, with director Josh Safdie saying Chalamet `almost lost an eye` during filming.
- Behind the scenes, Timothée Chalamet trained secretly for years while working on The French Dispatch, Wonka, and Dune: Part Two, refusing to do the minimum and unlearning modern technique for the 1950s period technique before rehearsals.
- On set, Timothée Chalamet handled nearly all match work himself, memorized every point with timing critical, and after one or two sessions was already returning 10 or 12 balls while Wei Wang helped nail period techniques.
- The film's publicity amplified attention on table tennis, with A24's orange blimp, Las Vegas Sphere projection, and Empire State Building lighting creating cultural moments.
- Recreating 1950s mechanics posed limits because most Olympic-level players start between ages 4 and 8, so the team adapted historical strokes while preserving the Safdie-style intensity in Josh Safdie's first solo feature.
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Timothée Chalamet wants to be great. ‘Marty Supreme’ might get him there
Since his breakthrough performance in 2017’s “Call Me By Your Name,” Timothée Chalamet has been on an ever-ascending path that seemed to reach a culmination when he declared that he’s “in pursuit of greatness” while accepting the best actor award…
The year 2023 was the year of the pink Barbie, film by Greta Gerwig. In 2024, that of the green brat, album by Charli XCX. And a few days after the end of the year has already appeared the color that will define this 2025 and part of 2026: the electric orange Marty Supreme, next film by Timothée Chalamet. Oranges are the outfits that the New York actor has put on with his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, and with his mother; the bodyguards that accompa…
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