Timothée Chalamet debuted a chaotic promo video for his forthcoming film Marty Supreme a day after its premiere at New York Film Festival.
The strange clip, released on the actor’s social media pages, is set to a thumping electronic score that samples Jason Mewes’ monologue from the 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. In the video, people with orange ping pong ball heads are playing table tennis in a field while one of them is trapped inside a plastic box filled with flying balls. The man in the box turns out to be Chalamet, who emerges with a shorn head in a Marty Supreme sweatsuit and strolls off the field, into a shipping container, and onto a movie junket set-up.
Chalament sits in the empty junket set-up for several minutes in silence before looking into the camera and saying, “Marty Supreme is an American film that comes out on Christmas 2025.”
Marty Supreme had its surprise premiere at the New York Film Festival on Monday night. The Josh Safdie-directed film also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’Zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher.
Chalamet revealed this week that he trained to play Marty Mauser, a character loosely inspired by American tennis table pioneer Marty Reisman, for several years. He started taking ping pong lessons in 2018.
“Everything I was working on, it was this secret: I had a table in London while I was making Wonka,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “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 added of why the film appealed to him, “In spirit, this is the most who I was that I’ve had to play a role. This is who I was before I had a career. Some people are fortunate enough to stumble into their success or be passive about their pursuit of whatever they want to do in life. That wasn’t it for me. For me, it was putting in the 10,000 hours. It was dropping out of college. It was taking a risk. It was pursuing projects that were untraditional at first — at the time, it was kind of radical, the choices I was making when I was 20. In a sense, the story of Marty Mauser is really comparative. And so I was deeply moved by it.”
