Timothée Chalamet Is a Man on a Mission in Ping-Pong-Filled ‘Marty Supreme’ Trailer
The highly anticipated film, directed by Josh Safdie, will arrive in theaters on Christmas Day
By Emily Zemler
Timothée Chalamet has nothing but confidence in the trailer for Josh Safdie‘s forthcoming film Marty Supreme.
The clip offers the first extensive look at the movie, which stars Chalamet as a young man named Marty Mauser, who has big dreams of becoming a table tennis star. “I have a purpose,” Marty intones in the trailer as his love interest, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, questions how he lives. “I live with the confidence that if I believe in myself, the money will follow,” he says.
As the trailer reveals, Marty keeps himself and his family together by “hustling.” “It’s every man for himself where I come from,” the character explains. “That’s just how I grew up.”
Marty Supreme stars Chalamet and Paltrow alongside Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher. It was directed by Safdie and written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. It is set to be released in theaters on Christmas Day.
Chalament recently kicked off his promotion of Marty Supreme, which has so far been delightfully bizarre. After the film had its secret world premiere at the New York Film Festival last month, the actor told The Hollywood Reporter he’s spent the past several years secretly working on his ping-pong skills, even as he filmed other movies.
“I had a table in London while I was making Wonka,” he said. “On Dune 2, I had a table in Budapest, Jordan. I had a table in Abu Dhabi. I had a table at the Cannes Film Festival for The French Dispatch. I got myself an Airbnb in a town [around] Saint-Tropez after The French Dispatch, overlooking the water, and I was taking lessons there.”
He later shared an incredible and absurd five-minute promo video. It’s shot in a field at dusk, and there are people in all black outfits with giant orange ping-pong balls for heads playing table tennis. Chalamet himself is locked in a glass box, wearing a similar orange head, plus a custom Marty Supreme track suit, being pelted by ping-pong balls. All of this is soundtracked to a delirious industrial beat laced with samples from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back quotes (most prominently, Jason Mewes’ ‘I am the clit commander’ monologue).