A few years ago, when Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet said his next project involved ping pong, people were perplexed. The star had already been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as ...

Timothée Chalamet enjoys a spanking. The Oscar-nominated actor, 30, refused a butt double and willingly got spanked by his “Marty Supreme” co-star Kevin O’Leary in a critical scene in the A24 film.

The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick. By Esther Zuckerman When Josh Safdie was ...

Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...

In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved." By Lexi Carson ...

“Drama is very important to me. I can’t undercut the drama,” notes one of the year’s most deeply carved cinematic characters, Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet with a staggering commitment to ...

Long before Timothée Chalamet starred in “Marty Supreme” — the hotly anticipated movie that hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day — there was Marty “The Needle” Reisman, the wild-eyed, high-strung ...

Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right. Marty Reisman won 22 major table tennis ...

Timothée Chalamet's new movie "Marty Supreme" arrives in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day. Director Josh Safdie's genre-busting sports drama is rated R. The young actor deserved an Oscar for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sweaty and self-confident, Timothée Chalamet swings a table tennis paddle like a madman in “Marty Supreme,” an unconventionally ...

BOTTOM LINE Chalamet leaves it all on the table in this high-stakes drama about a small-scale sport. Marty Mauser looks like a harmless sort with his skinny arms, wire-rimmed glasses and peach-fuzz ...

We’re only a week away from Marty Supreme and Timothée Chalamet is continuing to go hard with his over-the-top promotional push for the film. Last night, the actor appeared on The Tonight Show to ...