Robert Pattinson has a secret function in Marty Supreme.
The 39-year-old actor lent his voice because the announcer in the course of the British Open semifinals close to the beginning of the ping pong drama, during which aspiring desk tennis star Marty Mauser (Timothee Chalamet) battles it out in opposition to Hungarian champion Bela Kletzki (Geza Rohrig).
Throughout a dialog at London’s BFI Southbank on Tuesday (13.01.26), director Josh Safdie, 41, revealed: “Nobody is aware of this, however that voice – the commentator, the umpire – is Pattinson.
“It’s like a little bit easter egg. No one is aware of about that. … He got here and watched some stuff, and I used to be like, I don’t know any British individuals. So he’s the umpire.”
The revelation got here after Pattinson – who starred in Josh and Benny Safdie’s 2017 crime thriller Good Time – gave a “misleading” reply to working with the brothers once more on a film throughout a Lie Detector Check video with Vainness Honest again in November 2025.
Pattinson’s Die My Love co-star Jennifer Lawrence, 35, requested him: “You as soon as labored with Josh and Benny Safdie on Good Time. Would you need to work with them once more?”
He replied: “Sure.”
The polygraph examiner instantly declared his reply was “misleading”.
Laughing, Pattinson responded: “What? That is loopy!”
One other secret from Marty Supreme – which is loosely primarily based on the real-life desk tennis nice Marty Reisman’s journey to turning into a champion in desk tennis – is that Chalamet acquired a stern warning from a background actor.
The 30-year-old actor tried to frustrate the unnamed additional for a shock incident scene, during which Timothee’s character, Marty Mauser, plunged via the ground of his motel room whereas taking a shower and landed on a gangster’s arm and his canine.
And after some takes, the background actor informed Timothee that scary actual anger was harmful as a result of he had spent “30 years” in jail.
Throughout a Q+A session with 60-year-old actor Robert Downey Jr, held on the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday (14.01.26), Timothee recalled: “I will not say who, however in that motel sequence, there are quite a lot of non-actors … that I discover it actually thrilling to work with, however typically it might take a number of takes to actually get one thing out of them.
“And I am actually getting within the man’s face, and I am actually attempting to get him offended with me. I used to be saying to Josh [Safdie, the movie’s director], he’s not getting offended with me, he isn’t getting offended with me.
“I did one other take, after which the man stated, ‘I used to be simply in jail for 30 years. You actually do not need to f*** with me. You do not need to see me offended.'”
With a nervous chuckle, Timothee added: “I stated to Josh, Holy s***, who do you’ve got me reverse, man?”
