Timothée Chalamet Scrambles to Keep One Video from Leaking Ahead of Marty Supreme
With Marty Supreme set for a Christmas Day release, Timothée Chalamet has one holiday wish: that a behind-the-scenes Dune clip he fears ever seeing daylight stays buried—a confession he dropped during a Black Film and TV Q&A.
Timothée Chalamet has a new sports drama, Marty Supreme, rolling into theaters on Christmas, and he is absolutely living like a guy who took the role a little too seriously. We’re talking marathon ping pong training, a viral fake Zoom, and one chaotic clip he really does not want out in the world.
The off-camera moment he hopes never leaks
During a Q&A with Black Film and TV, Chalamet admitted that while he was finishing Dune in Abu Dhabi, a hotel security guard challenged him and a friend to ping pong. Friendly match, right? Not exactly. He says he flipped into full Marty Supreme mode, got super intense, and started shouting mid-game. He has video of the whole thing on his phone and regrets it even exists.
These can never leak.
His words, not mine. To be clear: he says the guard was excellent, he just hates how unhinged he looks screaming during a casual match with a hotel employee.
The ping pong grind was not a phase
Chalamet told THR he started training for Marty Supreme years back and then never stopped, even while juggling other movies. It went way beyond normal prep. He made sure there was a table basically everywhere he worked: London during Wonka; Budapest and Jordan on Dune: Part Two; Abu Dhabi again; even at Cannes when The French Dispatch was playing. After Cannes, he rented an Airbnb near Saint-Tropez overlooking the water and took lessons there. During the COVID lockdown, he cleared the furniture from his living room and turned it into a table-tennis zone. He kept at it while getting ready to play Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. This was not just reps — it sounds like a mission from a guy aiming straight at that Oscar after coming up short twice.
That awkward A24 Zoom making the rounds? It is a bit — and a good one
Right before the movie’s release, Chalamet popped up in a staged Zoom with A24’s marketing team that fooled a lot of people because he plays it painfully straight. In the video, he’s in an orange tank top, talking like a Very Serious Branding Genius, and insisting the entire campaign should be orange — the way Barbie became synonymous with pink. He even flashes a plain orange square and claims an artist spent six months perfecting that exact shade.
From there it escalates: he pitches painting the Statue of Liberty orange, launching blimps to drop ping pong balls, and shows doodles that look like a kid’s drawings while treating them like visionary work. It ends with him guiding a bizarre breathwork moment where the team closes their eyes, and he just watches them in silence. It’s awkward, committed, and funny. Fans seem into the self-send-up — he’s clearly in on the joke — and if they handed out trophies for ads, he’d be in contention for this one.
The basics (and one eyebrow-raiser)
- Movie: Marty Supreme
- Director: Josh Safdie
- Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary (yes, that Kevin O'Leary)
- Runtime: 2h 29m
- IMDb score: 7.2/10 (already!)
- Release date: December 25, 2025
Between the monk-like training and the deadpan marketing chaos, he’s definitely selling the obsession. Whether all that work pays off on the big day, we’re about to find out. Watch the Marty Supreme Zoom bit if you haven’t yet and tell me if it’s genius, cringe, or both. Marty Supreme opens December 25, 2025.