Timothée Chalamet Crowns Marty Supreme His Best Performance Yet

Timothee Chalamet is not exactly in his humble era. In a now-vanished interview that’s bounced onto TikTok, he calls his turn in Marty Supreme his best work yet and basically says the last several years have been a streak of heavy-lift, top-tier performances. Confidence? Off the charts. And honestly, judging by the early reviews, he might have a point.

"[Marty Supreme is] probably my best performance."

"And then it’s been like seven, eight years that I feel like I’ve been handing in really, really committed, top-of-the-line performances. It’s important to say out loud because the discipline and the work ethic I’m bringing to these things, I don’t want people to take for granted. I don’t want to take for granted. This is really some top-level s--t."

Here’s how this made it online in the first place: the interview was reportedly posted on journalist Margaret Gardiner’s YouTube channel, then deleted, but a clip was snagged and shared by Screenshot HQ on TikTok. Their caption stirred the pot by framing his confidence alongside the current method-acting discourse and even nodding to Kristen Stewart’s recent comments about how some men use method to make performance feel more 'masculine.' So yes, it sparked the kind of debate that keeps PR teams very, very awake.

There was also a quick name-drop moment: Gardiner mentioned (via People) that George Clooney called Chalamet 'a great actor.' Chalamet’s response? A dry joke that he 'needed a little more confidence.' Sure, why not add a little extra fuel to the swagger.

So, what is Marty Supreme?

It’s a 1950s New York City sports comedy-drama loosely inspired by the late table tennis legend Marty Reisman. Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, a hungry up-and-comer chasing greatness with a paddle and some serious attitude. Josh Safdie directs from a script he co-wrote with Ronald Bronstein, and early word is glowing to the point of blinding.

• Release: In theaters on Christmas Day
• Premise: A rising ping-pong phenom in 1950s NYC gunning for the top
• Director/Writers: Directed by Josh Safdie; co-written with Ronald Bronstein
• Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler The Creator, Abel Ferrara, Fran Drescher, Emory Cohen, and more
• Early reception: 97% on Rotten Tomatoes from 97 reviews; Metacritic score of 89 (labeled 'Universal Acclaim')

Between the hype machine and the numbers, Marty Supreme is already playing like a winner before it even hits theaters. If Chalamet is calling this his best, the bar for Christmas Day just got a lot higher.