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The comedic dramedy directed by Josh Safdie hits theaters connected Christmas Day.
Tyler the Creator attends the Starz screening of "Magic City: An American Fantasy" astatine Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center during the 2025 Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival connected August 06, 2025 successful Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
Tyler, the Creator says he’s not an actor, but that volition alteration connected Christmas Day erstwhile helium makes his diagnostic movie debut alongside Timothée Chalamet successful the Josh Safdie-directed Marty Supreme.
Marty Supreme had a astonishment premiere connected Monday nighttime (Oct. 6) astatine NYC’s Lincoln Center for the New York Film Festival, and overmuch of the formed deed the signifier to talk astir the A24 movie, which has drawn captious acclaim.
“Thank you to you, Josh. Please marque the biggest sound for this man,” Tyler said portion nodding to the director, Josh Safdie. “I’m truthful grateful, beyond grateful. I play soft and enactment connected chill clothes. I bash not enactment astatine all.”
The multi-hyphenate originative explained that helium had truthful overmuch spot successful Safdie that helium would’ve shown up for immoderate relation helium had carved retired for him successful the movie and helium was flooded with emotion aft seeing it each travel together.
“This antheral is truthful bully that I trusted him and said, ‘Anything you need. I don’t privation to work this script. I volition amusement up and beryllium there.’ Because I spot this antheral and the mode helium curated and handled each detail,” helium gushed. “And the team, moving with y’all, it was truthful wonderful. I got affectional up determination due to the fact that you gave maine a chance, truthful I convey you, I emotion you, and convey you. Please springiness it up.”
Starring other Gwyneth Paltrow, Chalamet is slated to play Marty Mauser (a relation seemingly inspired by professional ping pong subordinate Marty Reisman), who’s an aspiring ping-pong subordinate with dreams of stardom. Set successful the 1950s, Mauser won’t halt until helium makes his imagination a reality.
The Dune star began taking ping pong lessons successful 2018, and made definite helium could signifier with a ping pong array adjacent passim galore of his caller acting projects.
Tyler makes a fewer cameos successful the film’s trailer, which finds him driving astir Chalamet, arsenic helium pursues his imagination and adjacent screams astatine him during a contentious scene.
It’s Josh Safdie’s archetypal clip directing since 2019’s Uncut Gems. The remainder of the formed is rounded retired by Shark Tank‘s Kevin O’Leary, Fran Drescher, magician Penn Jillette, Abel Ferrara and Odessa A’zion. Tyler, the Creator has made appearances successful the Jackass series and Pharrell’s Piece by Piece, but Marty Supreme will service arsenic his archetypal diagnostic movie acting role.
Watch Tyler’s code below.