Timothée Chalamet steps into a new role.
The 28-year-old actor was spotted on the sets of his film Marty Supreme in New York City on Monday, September 30, looking possibly unrecognizable with a mustache and glasses. Chalamet finished the look in a collared shirt under a navy waistcoat and brown trousers, with his hair slicked back.
As Diversity reported in July, Marty Supreme is a fictional story partially inspired by professional table tennis player Marty Reisman. The film was directed by Josh Safdie, based on a script by Safdie (40) and Ronald Bronstein.
A24 broke the news in a July 15 post on X, with a graphic of a table tennis ball emblazoned with “MARTY SUPREME” and “MADE IN AMERICA,” separated by three stars.
The following month, it was announced that Gwyneth Paltrow would be joining the cast, after years of focusing on her various ventures.
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Timothée Chalamet on set Marty Supreme in New York on September 30, 2024.
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News of Paltrow’s casting marks her return to film after 2019 Avengers: Endgamein which she reprized her role as Pepper Potts from the film Iron Man franchise.
Marty Supreme it’s the Oscar winner’s first credit since lending her voice to the 2023 episode American horror stories and an uncredited moment in the 2022 biopic She said. From 2019 to 2020, she starred in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Politician.
Paltrow, 52, previously indicated she was retiring from acting to focus on lifestyle and wellness brand Goop, which she founded in 2008.
“I’ll still do something here and there, but this really takes up almost all of my time,” she said Today back in 2017. “I’ve had an amazing acting career, but I’ve had a deep passion for producing content and creating great products and curating.”
“It developed slowly and had a long gestation period, and now it’s like a real business,” Shakespeare in love star added.
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Gwyneth Paltrow in Milan on June 16, 2024; Timothée Chalamet in Beverly Hills, California on January 7, 2024.
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As for Chalamet, Marty Supreme isn’t his only recent project for which he’s undergone a bit of a physical transformation. The Oscar nominee can next be seen as a young Bob Dylan in the upcoming biographical drama Complete unknowndirected by James Mangold.
Set for release on Christmas Day, the film looks at Dylan’s arrival in New York aged 19 and his rise to stardom, culminating in his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
Chalamet’s performance has already generated buzz, with the first teaser showing him singing Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” after being introduced by Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), the musician’s famous mentor and early supporter.
The film also covers Dylan’s relationships with key figures such as Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) and Sylvie Russo, a character played by Elle Fanning who is loosely based on Dylan’s early 1960s girlfriend, Suze Rotolo.
The cast will play other real-life icons like Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook) and Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), who influenced Dylan’s early career.
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