Timothée Chalamet benefits from Marty Supreme’s success. The film recently premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris.
However, ticket prices for the event shot up to €50. Chalamat playfully jokes that he had nothing to do with it.
“I know there were a lot of charges,” he says, adding: “It has nothing to do with me! I don’t get paid for it, I would have liked it to be free.”
The statement, per Varietysays the Dune star was still partly in his Marty Reisman character when he arrived at the premiere in a brown Givenchy suit and sunglasses.
Lately, Chalamet has received a lot of applause for his chasing table tennis champion. Josh Safdie, who directed Marty Supreme, shares the lead role in the A24 film “was written for (Chalamet).”
“I met him when he was in his early twenties, and I met a young man who had eyes bigger than his head,” the filmmaker notes.
“I met a young man who was in the room, but not where he wanted to be, and I met Timmy Supreme. I met a kid who had a vision for himself. He could see the world, he could see the art, but he was so far away. He had to be the center of it.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Chalamet also praises French cinephile culture, saying: “The French people who love films. There is a great film culture in France and even if the film is successful in the United States, it is a wonder film.”
Marty Supreme debuts in France on February 18.
