Timothée Chalamet Declares His “Marty Supreme” Performance His 'Best' Yet: 'It's Important to Say It Out Loud'
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Jack SmartDecember 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Timothee Chalamet attends the premiere of "Marty Supreme" in Los Angeles, California, on December 8, 2025. -
Timothée Chalamet called his work in new movie Marty Supreme “probably my best performance” in a recent, since-deleted interview
“It's important to say out loud because the discipline and the work ethic I'm bringing to these things, I don't want people to take for granted,” he added
Chalamet has stated in the past that he wants “to be one of the greats”
Timothée Chalamet — like his newest character — is in pursuit of greatness.
Marty Supreme (in theaters Dec. 25) stars the 29-year-old actor as Marty Mauser, a Jewish American table tennis pioneer chasing success. In a recent viral interview, Chalamet channeled the onscreen athlete in touting his own work.
Multiple outlets report that Chalamet, in a video interview posted and since deleted on Margaret Gardiner's YouTube page, joked that he "needed a little more confidence” after Gardiner shouted out George Clooney recently calling the Dune star “a great actor.”
“This is probably my best performance,” he said of Marty Supreme, per a TikTok clip shared by Screenshot HQ, adding, “and it's been like seven, eight years that I feel like I've been handing in really, really committed, top-of-the-line performances.”
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He continued, “It's important to say it out loud because the discipline and the work ethic I'm bringing to these things, I don't want people to take for granted. I don't want to take for granted. This is really some top-level s---.”
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PEOPLE did not independently view the video on Gardiner's YouTube page before it was deleted.
Video of the interview was removed from X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit, per World of Reel and Buzzfeed.
Director Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme was co-written by Ronald Bronstein. As both actor and producer, Chalamet leads a cast that includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma a.k.a. Tyler, the Creator, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher.
Chalamet has acknowledged that he was disappointed to have not won the Academy Award last year for his performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. “People can call me a try-hard, and they can say whatever the f---,” he said in a November interview with Vogue. “If there’s five people at an awards show, and four people go home losing you don’t think those four people are at the restaurant like, ‘Damn, we didn’t win?' "
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Timothee Chalamet accepts the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role award for "A Complete Unknown" onstage during the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
At the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Chalamet won Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, he took the stage to talk about being “really in pursuit of greatness." “I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats ... I’m as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando and Viola Davis as I am by Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and I want to be up there," he said. "So, I’m deeply grateful.”
Marty Supreme is in theaters Dec. 25.
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