Timothée Chalamet dons moustache and glasses to play ’50s ping pong prodigy in New York
The actor will co-star in 'Marty Supreme' with Gwyneth Paltrow and Tyler, the Creator
by Max Pilley · NMEThe first images have emerged of Timothée Chalamet in character as the ping pong maestro Marty Reisman in his upcoming film Marty Supreme.
It was revealed in July that the Dune star had signed up to play the real-life figure, who was known as the “wizard of table tennis” and played professionally from 1947 to 2002. Reisman won 22 ping pong titles and five bronze medals at the World Table Tennis Championships.
The film has been written by its director Josh Safdie, one half of the Safdie brothers who made Uncut Gems and Good Time, and Ronald Bronstein, who will also produce. Like Safdie’s previous projects, Marty Supreme will be distributed by A24.
Now, the first shots of Chalamet in costume have got out, showing him in full 1950s hairstyle, black pencil moustache and round wire-framed glasses, with a blue sweater over a pale shirt. Filming on the movie recently got underway in Uptown Manhattan.
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Marty Supreme will also star Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler, the Creator in his film debut, magician Penn Jillette and Bad Lieutenant director Abel Ferrara.
Chalamet, who played Paul Atreides in both Dune films, and has taken major roles in Wonka, Don’t Look Up, Bones And All, Little Women and The French Dispatch, is also preparing to play Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown.
That film will explore Dylan’s transition to the electric guitar in the mid-’60s and his rise to fame. It has been confirmed that he will sing in the film, and has been captured filming a scene in New Jersey alongside Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez. The film will be released in the US on Christmas Day, and in the UK on January 17.
Meanwhile, in a recent interview with NME alongside his Dune: Part Two co-star Austin Butler, Chalamet said he would have liked Butler’s version of Elvis Presley, from the Baz Luhrmann hit Elvis, to appear in A Complete Unknown.