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Timothée Chalamet made history today by becoming the first person to appear on top of the Sphere in Las Vegas in order to promote his upcoming ping-pong film, Marty Supreme. A clip posted on social media this morning shows Chalamet dressed in a hoodie with a cloudy backdrop behind him.
"Marty Supreme is an American film that comes out on Christmas Day 2025," he shouts before throwing his hands up in the air.
The Oscar-nominated actor can be heard cheering enthusiastically as the camera zooms out to reveal the Sphere's dome-shaped exosphere has been transformed into a giant ping-pong ball in celebration of the film. "Marty Supreme," the Sphere reads. "Dream big."
The one-of-a-kind activation was conceptualized and executed by Chalamet, Marty Supreme's distributor A24 Films, and Sphere Studios. It is part of a partnership with Cash App, which also helped execute the event and created a Marty Supreme Cash App Card featuring five exclusive stamps for the film.
This is far from the first stunt Chalamet has pulled to raise awareness for the film. When visiting The Tonight Show last week, the 29-year-old sat down for his interview with host Jimmy Fallon while surrounded by a group of silent men wearing black body suits and orange ping-pong ball masks over their heads.
Directed, produced, and co-written by Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme follows the life and career of up-and-coming table tennis star Marty Mauser (Chalamet) as he fights to become the best of the best. The sports drama also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Fran Drescher, and more.
The film's casting director, Jennifer Venditti, took Entertainment Weekly behind the scenes on how she recruited the talent featured in the film as part of our Awardist Makers Issue released this month.
"It always starts with the face," she said at the time. "And the thing that's so lucky is Josh [Safdie] and I have this kind of kindred spirit. We see the cinema of real life."
She continued, "I'm looking for life expressed on a face. And it doesn't mean that you have to have lived a long time. It's just like an aliveness. It's in the eyes, it's in the quality of the skin. And it pulls you in. It makes you want to know more."
Marty Supreme slams its way into theaters on Dec. 25. Watch Chalamet stand atop the Sphere in the clip above.
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