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Most athletes play ping-pong to whet their competitive instincts or kill time, but what if it could improve performance?

There’s a scene in the recent hit movie Marty Supreme in which Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), an American table tennis ...

1645: It took him two hours and 29 minutes but Novak Djokovic has the Wimbledon title to go with his new number one ranking. He sinks to his knees, then lies flat out on the Centre Court turf. And ...

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 stars in Marty Supreme—a sports drama set in 1950s New York City that follows Marty Mauser, a pompous hustler on a mission to pursue his ping-pong dreams by any means necessary. The ...

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 ...

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“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 ...