Between being an award-winning actor and dating Kylie Jenner, when is Timothée Chalamet not making headlines? Ahead of his latest Oscar-tipped release, Marty Supreme, though, Timothée is now being talked about for a whole different reason – and we’re going to get into it, and the former.
Marty Supreme is coming to the UK this month on the other side of our collective Christmas dinner comas. A faux biopic of a fictional professional ping pong player set during the 50s, Timothée Chalamet is the determined Marty Mauser.
For more details on its real-life inspiration behind Marty Supreme, who joins Chalamet in the cast, and those rapper rumours, read on with our guide on everything you need to know about Timothée Chalamet- we mean, Marty Supreme.
What is Marty Supreme about?
Marty Supreme follows a man named Mary Mauser who has his sights set on becoming a table tennis champion. Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York City, the official synopsis reveals that he will go “to hell and back in pursuit of greatness”.
Who is in the cast of Marty Supreme alongside Timothée Chalamet?
Timothée Chalamet stars alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Tyler the Creator in Marty Supreme. Here’s the full Marty Supreme cast list.
- Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Kay Stone
- Odessa A'zion as Rachel Mizler
- Kevin O'Leary as Milton Rockwell
- Tyler Okonma (Tyler the Creator) as Wally
- Abel Ferrara as Ezra Mishkin
- Fran Drescher as Rebecca Mauser
- Sandra Bernhard as Judy
- Spenser Granese as Clark
- Luke Manley as Dion Galanis
- John Catsimatidis as Christopher Galanis
- Isaac Mizrahi as Merle
- George Gervin as Lawrence
- Ted Williams as Ted
- Emory Cohen as Ira Mizler
- Géza Röhrig as Bela Kletzki
- Penn Jillette as Hoff
- Larry "Ratso" Sloman as Murray Mauser
- Ralph Colucci as Lloyd
- Koto Kawaguchi as Endo
- Pico Iyer as Ram Sethi
When is Marty Supreme going to be released in the UK?
Marty Supreme is arriving at Cineworld on the 26th December. In other words, Boxing Day in the UK.
Is Marty Mauser a real person?
Marty Supreme titular character Marty Mauser is actually based on a real-life table tennis player. Marty Reisman was a post-war table tennis star, who won 22 major table tennis titles during his career as a competitive table tennis player. At 67, he won the 1997 United States National Hardbat Championship, becoming the oldest person to win a racket sport at a national level.
Can Timothée Chalamet actually play table tennis?
Marty Supreme has been seven years in the making with Timothée Chalamet revealing to the BBC he was first approached for the gig in 2018. Since then, he’s been finessing his table tennis skills, noting the importance of ensuring such skills looked authentic on screen.
"I think the responsibility in this movie, like in the Bob Dylan movie, if you were a Dylan fan or a guitar player, [is to make sure] that that looks real to you on screen. Similarly here, if you're a ping-pong aficionado, that that looks believable to you."
He revealed he had therefore travelled around the world for his other roles preceding this one – Wonka, Dune, etc. – with a table tennis table so he could practice between takes.
Is Timothée Chalamet EsDeeKid?
Now, onto important matters. Is Timothée Chalamet in fact EsDeeKid? The rapper from Liverpool is notorious for concealing much of his face apart from his eyes. And those eyes? Well, they look a hell of a lot like Timothée Chalamet’s own twinkling ones.
Considering Timothée has a background in rap – namely performing it for talent shows in high school and that one SNL kit – it’s not completely left field an assumption.
TikTok has been rife with comparisons, with EsDeeKid’s next tour in North America conveniently carving out time for a hectic award season, for which Timothée has already picked up nominations at both the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards for his role in Marty Supreme.
When asked about the rumours in an interview on Heart Radio in the UK, Timothée decided to go with two words: no comment – as his response to whether or not it was true. All he had to say, in fact was, "All will be revealed soon."
Book your tickets to watch Marty Supreme at Cineworld now, out on 26th December.
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