The entire Regal Cinemas complex in Times Square was reserved for the New York premiere of “Marty Supreme” ahead of its Christmas Day release. The house was filled with press, guild members, special guests, and celebrities, (Zohran Mamdani, Jack Harlow, Sissy Spacek, Benny Safdie, Anna Wintour, and more) alongside 100 students personally invited by Chalamet from LaGuardia High School’s drama department. The energy was palpable, young artists seated among industry veterans, all waiting for the lights to dim.
Director Josh Safdie took the stage to roaring applause, thanking the audience and longtime collaborators at A24 for a creative relationship built over years of fearless storytelling, from Good Time to Uncut Gems. He called Marty Supreme arguably the best film they’ve made and “the most New York movie” of their careers. The room erupted as Safdie brought out the stars of the film: Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Tyler the Creator, Kevin O’Leary, and the star himself, Timothée Chalamet.
Safdie introduced Chalamet as “Timmy Supreme,” reflecting on first meeting him in 2017, a young actor with boundless ambition and vision, who indeed did “dream very big”. That dream manifests fully in Chalamet’s performance as Marty Mauser, capturing ego, charisma, grit, and a dangerously blinding determination that feels inseparable from greatness. The supporting cast elevates the film’s momentum, including Tyler Okonma, making his feature film debut while humorously insisting he’s terrible at table tennis, and Odessa A’zion, whose self-tape won over casting director Jennifer Venditti and Safdie himself.
As audiences now know, Chalamet spent six to seven years quietly training in table tennis for the role, all while delivering a decade of Oscar worthy performances and executing a marketing strategy unlike anything before—one that has the world rooting for Timmy Supreme.
The celebration continued with an after-party at The National Arts Club, where guests toasted the film’s early success as the Empire State Building lit the skyline in orange. In Chalamet’s New York stomping grounds, the message landed loud and clear: Dream Big. Catch Marty Supreme in theaters on Christmas Day.