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Timothée Chalamet is opening up for the first time about working with Gwyneth Paltrow on their new film.
Chalamet, 29, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about his new movie Marty Supreme in an article published Tuesday, Oct. 7, one day after the movie made a surprise world premiere at the New York Film Festival. The movie stars Chalamet as aspiring competitive table tennis player Marty Mauser, and Paltrow, 53, makes her first big screen appearance since 2019 in the film as an actress named Kay Stone, who engaged in an affair with the title character.
“She was incredible,” Chalamet said of working with Paltrow. He cited his experience working with Christian Bale on the 2017 movie Hostiles as similar to getting to act with Paltrow. “When I work with these people whose work I grew up on, who are masters, it’s the way you would feel if you were in drama class on 48th Street, and you’re in an exercise, and you literally go, ‘Wow, I’m working with an amazing artist,’ ” he told the outlet.
Paltrow and Chalamet’s roles in the movie first gained attention when they were photographed kissing as they filmed scenes in New York City’s Central Park in October 2024. A trailer, which was released in August, shows the two characters flirting as he calls her on the phone from a hotel and tells her that he believes he is “the chosen one,” and Paltrow told Vanity Fair in a March interview that the pair “have a lot of sex in this movie.”
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“Really, he’s very polite, very talented, just so nice to be with,” Paltrow told Drew Barrymore of working with Chalamet during a November 2024 appearance on Barrymore’s talk show. “I’m really having a good time with him.”
“Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness,” reads an official synopsis for Marty Supreme. The movie is directed by Josh Safdie (Uncut Gems), and its cast also features Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma (a.k.a. Tyler, the Creator), Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher.
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Marty Supreme marks Chalamet’s first big screen part since 2024’s Dune: Part Two and A Complete Unknown. Chalamet won a Screen Actors Guild award and received his second career Oscar nomination for portraying a young Bob Dylan in the latter film.
Chalamet also told THR that he has been practicing table tennis and taking lessons since 2018 in order to portray the movie’s lead character; he similarly spent multiple years learning how to play guitar and sing in order to portray Dylan. “If anyone thinks this is cap, as the kids say — if anyone thinks this is made up — this is all documented, and it’ll be put out,” he told the outlet. “These were the two spoiled projects where I got years to work on them. This is the truth. I was working on both these things concurrently.”
Marty Supreme is in theaters Dec. 25.
