#TimotheeChalamet#MartySupreme#JoshSafdie Timothée Chalamet joins director Josh Safdie for an in-depth Marty Supreme Q&A, moderated by Jimmy Fallon. In this exclusive live panel discussion, Chalamet and Safdie break down the making of Marty Supreme, behind-the-scenes stories, character development, creative collaboration, and what makes this film one of the most talked-about releases of the year.
Jimmy Fallon leads the conversation as Timothée Chalamet discusses preparing for the role, working with Josh Safdie, and the emotional and thematic layers of Marty Supreme. Josh Safdie shares insight into his directing process, storytelling choices, and what inspired the film.
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Oscar-nominated director, producer, co-writer, and co-editor of Marty Supreme.
Everyone, welcome Josh Safdie!
Wow! Well done, buddy.
Nice to see you, brother.
He is the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning star of Marty Supreme.
Please welcome Timothee Chalamet!
Yes! Yes!
Come on. Come on, buddy. I love you, buddy. I love you.
Come on. All right. Here we go.
Man, what a performance. I love watching it myself all the time.
What a performance, and what a great crew you had, and everybody.
I got to say, and everyone probably agrees with me, but we love this movie.
But you could tell that everyone was on the same page with this movie,
and I think that's what makes the best movies.
So you go, oh, they're all wanting to make this movie.
The sound, the audio, the cinematographer, the set design, the wardrobe.
Everybody in this movie, I'm like, oh, they're all on the same page.
They're playing the same game. It's a beautiful, beautiful movie.
It's fantastic.
Thank you so much. We all were on the same page.
Every single department head, we all worked out a back story.
Everything had meaning. We were trying to do our best.
To Jack Fist, the production designer, Miyako, who leads to the costume designer.
Darius Kanji, the cinematographer, Jen.
Every single element was exactly the same, and we all knew that.
So there was an egalitarian quality to it.
Didn't care if you were a background actor or Timmy.
So therefore, we all kind of brought the same passion.
You could feel that in the movie.
I got to do a couple lines with Cameron Crowe in Almost Famous,
and we're doing the scene in the...
It's a great scene. You're talking about the plane?
It's a great scene.
We're not here for this.
We're going to go through all my scenes.
I told him about it the other day when we were on a plane.
I was like, there's a great scene in the Cameron Crowe movie
where they think they're going down, and he admits to the crazy...
Yeah, I killed somebody. I admit that I killed...
And then the plane levels out, and everyone's looking at him.
Like, you're a murderer?
But they recreated Max's Kansas City,
and so we're supposed to be there, and we're at this club,
and it's late, and I see Cameron go up to this extra,
and he goes, okay, all right, you had a long day.
Okay, you got to work. You got one more hour to go,
and then you go home, and he wasn't...
He was talking to a guy, an actor, that had no lines.
He wasn't doing it for show to show anybody.
I just happened to see it out of the corner of my eye,
and it made him feel like a million bucks, dude.
And that was exactly the type of love that was on that movie,
and I was like, I and all of you do the same thing.
You watch a movie, but you're watching attention to detail
in every single little bit, and I go, if that's off, I'm out.
If a wig is bad, I'm out.
Everything attention to detail in this worked,
and I'm like, I bet you...
Like, the guy with the safe?
Yeah, Lloyd.
Who in the world is that guy, and what in the hell?
I love him so much.
Every character's so interesting.
His name is Ralph Calucci.
Holy mackerel!
He's one of the great horse betters of Brooklyn.
What?
Yeah, and I had worked with him very briefly on something,
and he was such a natural and such a movie star.
You know, movie stars, you put a camera on them,
and they just come alive, and he came alive,
and he was...
Last time I worked with him, it was all improv,
and this time it was all scripted,
and the way he would...
Timmy, the way you guys would get into it,
and the way that you would bring on to set
this little bit of animosity towards him,
but also a little bit of sympathy.
You played it so well, by the way.
Oh, yeah, that scene in the safe is so great.
No, it's all fantastic.
You're like a cocky, kind of unlikable dude,
but yet I root for you, and I loved you.
I go, no one else can do what you did.
You did an amazing job, and I loved it.
I'm like, it's so perfectly laid in,
and you do it all the time,
and I gotta be honest, I was a little worried.
I heard Marty Supremio, cool name,
they go, it's about a ping-pong movie.
I go, uh-oh.
God, Timothy Chalmers is a nice guy.
Please let his career survive this.
And then I saw it.
I go, it was levels.
So let's get into some questions.
When did you first meet?
When did you collaborate with each other?
When did you know you wanted to work with each other?
When I wanted to work with Josh,
as soon as I saw his early work.
It was a good time.
Premiere was my way in, not his earlier films,
but I was dying to work with him
the way any young actor or actress
would be chomping at the opportunity to work with him.
Weirdly, we were supposed to do
some sort of fashion short that fell apart
in 2017, 2018.
He had this idea for Marty,
and I was always circling him,
hoping the things he was working on
were going to fall apart.
How did he pitch you the idea?
The idea was,
correct me if any of this is wrong,
I think the Strand Bookstore
has a one dollar, five dollar
rack outside.
His wife, Sarah, who worked on the film,
saw a book
that the movie is very loosely
inspired by.
It gave him this idea about the 1950s
and about American exceptionalism,
all these things you can speak to better than I can.
I don't want to speak for you,
but I think he saw a New York spirit
in me and a spirit of ambition.
When I met him at the Good Time premiere,
I was with one of my best friends, Cody,
who claimed we were on acid,
which wasn't true.
It was a good performance, though.
I don't know, I think he saw
a kindred spirit, in a sense.
Like the scrappiness?
Yeah, and I always loved that.
The part of me and my crew,
which I've been fortunate to have,
that I got him to do perfume commercials
and stuff like that,
that's everything he did not want in this film.
He wanted a different part of me,
the New York part of me,
the Hell's Kitchen part of me,
the one that had a big dream from the jump
and who is ******* living it.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I met someone.
An agent came up to me and said,
you want to meet the next big superstar?
And I rolled my eyes.
I was like, oh my God.
Exactly, here we go.
Then I meet him and his buddy
and immediately the energy, the intensity.
I met Timmy Supreme.
I met a kid who was not where he wanted to be.
I just could tell he looked like a trapped person
who had a dream inside of him
who was trying to get him to escape.
I never saw...
I was watching him do all these great films,
but he was never expressing himself
through any of those characters,
the kid that I met.
The idea for this film for me
is about a boy becoming a man.
It's a guy puffing himself up
and dreaming pathologically.
I saw that inside of Timmy.
I wanted to express that.
Sorry about that.
For the record, it was Housing Works.
That's where the books...
Housing Works, Thrift Shop.
That's where my wife...
I think the first thing I sent to you
was a video of
late 40s British open video
of these wiry young table tennis players
set to Peter Gabriel music.
My thought was
I'm going to make...
I didn't want to do a period film with him
because he was so contemporary to me at the time
but also so timeless.
I was like, I want to do this film
that takes place in 1952,
but as if we were there,
the people who we are today
going to 1952 in a time machine,
making that film for all of us here
and bringing it back,
getting into the car and bringing it back
so that I can use my skills
to tell the story as best I can
but I'm just in 1952.
I wanted something about
putting the 80s music to
that helped dislodge it.
How do you do this, Josh?
I don't know why I did it.
When you're writing it or co-writing it,
who's your partner?
Ronald Bronstein.
I write and edit with him.
You're editing things.
You're directing this.
You're shooting this.
In your head, you're seeing the edit?
Of course.
Are you seeing the song being played?
Yes.
Every song, Needle Drop,
was written into the script.
You had sent me a playlist
way before we started shooting.
That's right.
There's a 23-hour playlist.
How many years did you work on this?
Six years.
Timmy and I started talking about it
six years ago.
Talking about this character,
where is he from?
The big thing was no father.
That was a big part of the character.
The earlier version of the movie,
the relationship with his mom
was way more intense and crazier.
Fran Drescher was fantastic.
I love Fran Drescher.
She was great.
I love Sandra Bernhardt.
By the way, Kevin O'Leary,
not a cameo.
Not a cameo.
He's fantastic.
When you cast somebody,
you're casting their essence.
I believe all films are a documentary
in some regards.
You're using actors to tap in
and create these real characters.
Sometimes when you're working with
actors who've done it a bunch
and they're so great at it,
you can get really micro
about some of the things
you're expressing.
With other people,
you just want them to tell you
who the character is before
they open their mouth.
When you meet Milton,
he's not a bad guy.
He did nothing wrong.
You should feel sympathetic for him
because this young guy is hitting
on his wife from across the room.
Yet you don't like him.
He's an asshole
because he plays an asshole
on TV.
He represents American greed
and corporate colonialism
and the American dream
in quotes.
This is the show.
The show is a great American export
because it is so its thing.
Tyler, the creator.
That's right.
Tyler was actually the first person
outside Timmy that we wrote for
because they had an incredible energy.
Tyler is so timeless.
I know he was a great performer.
I have a photo, actually,
of the two of you in my office
in 2017.
They're both smiling ear to ear.
It's a great image.
To me, the movie is also about
friendship and people who believe,
the believers,
and how important belief is.
I think that his buddy,
Tyler, Wally,
unfortunately,
because he's a black man in 1952,
he's not allowed to dream big.
He had a family
and things like that.
That moment when they're out tonight,
they have a micro dream.
That moment when they're dancing outside the car,
which was one of the first things
that I wrote in the movie,
it fills me with so much...
It's one of the moments in the movie
that I call purity.
There's a purity there.
It's that feeling of being with a friend
and you're the only two people
who exist on planet Earth.
You've jumped up
out of the trappings of life
and you've captured that dream
and you're living the purity of that moment.
It's just the two of you
and you're dancing.
It almost feels like you're on another planet.
It feels like it's in Mars.
That scene does take place in Mars.
Perfect. Then I understood the movie.
When you get into this character,
how do you get into this character?
I know you always give
110% when you do a thing.
120%.
You don't goof off.
You don't have people busy on set.
What gets you into Marty?
I think it was a lock-in mentality.
It was the last dance
in the Michael Jordan documentary.
I've talked about Ad Nauseam.
It was John McEnroe.
Jack Fisk, who's the incredible production designer
on this film, said it beautifully.
We did a Q&A together.
He feels when he pulls from movies,
he's pulling from a watered-down effect
because he's already pulling from what's
a representation on screen.
If you pull from real life,
something like The Last Dance still has an artful
editing sequence in the Michael Jordan documentary,
but that's real life. That's Jordan at his prime.
That's Kobe at his prime.
People that rub people the wrong way
but wouldn't take no for an answer
in pursuit of greatness.
The preparation here wasn't artful in a sense.
Also, there was the actual table tennis preparation.
That was a six-year process.
I don't mean that in a pretentious way.
That was day by day by day when I had time off.
During COVID, I had moved all my furniture
out of my living room in my apartment downtown.
I put a table tennis table in.
Josh came over to play.
My floors were so dusty, he turned his ankle.
We had to stop playing.
He literally injured himself.
I did injure myself.
Literally, yeah.
It's a process of osmosis.
The more time you get to put in,
the better the product's going to be.
I remember Jack on There Will Be Blood.
Jack Fist, the production designer.
Daniel Day-Lewis, I think, asked him
to build a little attache
to his house down in Marfa
where it was perfect period.
He could just go and be in the character.
That way, he could show up and do his job.
He said to me,
he saw Timmy.
Recently, my props person
gave me Marty's wallet.
We got it.
I never knew what was inside Marty's wallet.
In it,
Timmy had two actresses
that Marty loved
and a picture of Odessa, who plays Rachel.
She's phenomenal, by the way.
She's so good.
About $13, which is $130 today.
Wow.
I was talking to Jack about it.
Part of my job
is to write
these character backstories,
which we would go through.
He was very interested in the backstories
that I was writing for the other characters
and how they interacted with Marty,
particularly Rachel.
I think that Jack
and myself
and obviously Miyako
and the way he was developing
all the costume work,
just seeing and feeling
what this guy's life looks like
was something very important to him.
That obviously inspires someone like Jack.
The way Daniel Day asked for that.
When you hear someone say,
I need to feel this physically,
you know that they're
searching for the reality of that character
in real life.
When you get these people
surrounding you like Jack Fisk
and you get
Darius Kanji,
are you doing flips?
A lot of my crew
I've worked with a bunch of times.
They're like a family.
Jack, when I knew I had to do period
and I knew I wanted the syntax
and everything to be perfect
because I was going to get in there
and I was not going to be playing period.
It was going to be telling the story
presently.
This wasn't a period film.
This was a contemporary film I was making in 1952.
That was what it was.
I knew
and I said there's only one person
who can give me hidden histories.
He's basically a U.S. historian
at this point. It's Jack Fisk.
What other films has he done?
There Will Be Blood, Badlands,
Tree of Life,
Killers of the Flower Moon, Carrie.
All right, stop. That's enough.
Wow, wow, wow.
Mulholland Drive. He grew up with David Lynch.
He is, I think,
one of the greatest working production designers.
I went to him.
He was working on Killers of the Flower Moon
in 2021. I begged him.
He's like, I'm working on a movie.
We ended up in 2024 making this.
He's got to believe in you
because it's about this guy Marty Reisman
who plays ping pong.
I'll call you next week.
He loves hidden histories.
I think, for me personally,
the smaller the story, the bigger the picture.
Sometimes you can learn so much
about life through
a very small detail.
He loved that there was this story,
the true story of the Japanese coming out of
isolation in 1952.
He loved this table tennis parlor
that was on 55th and Broadway called
Lawrence's. He loved that it was the first
black-owned business in the Times Square district.
He's like, that's history. No one even knows
about it. Him and my wife, who's a producer on the film,
who ran research,
she found, they went into the
real barracks of
the paperwork of the city.
They found the
architectural drawings for
the building. They found all the renovation
drafts.
You do that tenement house. Is that a real?
He built that.
He built three stories of the tenement.
That's a set?
Yeah, it's a set.
Darius is crazy too.
He's been wanting to work
with Jack forever. Jack's whole thing is he walked
in and he saw how we were all
inspiring one another.
There was no difference between a piece
of clothing, an actor,
a chair on set,
the way a wall looks. They were all
the same thing. Because they were all the same
thing, we were all impassioned
by it. He saw that.
I think Timmy could speak to that as an actor.
All the actors are treated the same.
Jack saw that and he's like,
I want to be a part of this family too. He fit right in.
Jack is, he's going to be 80,
but he's the youngest guy I've ever met.
He's an eight-year-old.
He is so curious.
Eyes wide open.
He was really into, he loves
creating something that you don't have reference
for because he gets to
create it and it becomes a documentary.
He said, Josh, I'm going to design a
documentary for you so that you can go
and shoot any which way you want.
But when you're writing this, I can't believe
you wrote this, edited this, but when you're
writing this, do you go, and then the bathtub
falls, then the dog's
legs break, the dog's barking,
he's squealing. Or you can
just go, he falls in and it's funny,
and go to the next scene.
You made your life harder.
I enjoy the challenge
because if it was easy, anyone could
do it. I think that if
you challenge yourself,
you're inundated,
you become blind to any of the
scary parts of the movie, which is
like, oh my god, it cost this much money, and you have this
many days, so you're just so inundated
to be, you have to be present. How am I going to get a
dog to act? And the
trainer's like, dogs don't act.
They do. So we have to train it to,
how do we train it to look like it's
in distress? So that's really
difficult. So I have to start thinking like an
animal trainer.
So it's hard.
It's really hard. Yes! Like working
with a baby.
Babies don't act. Infants don't do
anything. They don't. But you can,
well, we can caress the back. You can cast
the woman who was handling the baby.
She's the SAG
person who handles babies, who's
on set to make sure, so that she knows
how to handle the baby. So it's like, alright, let's
caress the back quietly so we can get that
moment of connection. So you have to come up with all these
things, and again, the challenges
are the things that keep you up at night.
But you gotta be up at night. Did you have the last scene
written? When you're writing? It's one of the first
things written. It was that.
The beginning and the end was bookended.
That's what seals the deal.
When you look at the baby and you go,
I lost it. I'm sure.
He did that in two takes.
Yeah. It was cool
and moving and fascinating.
And you know an actor
is so in it. As a director, you have
to be like, okay, the actor, they're doing something
right now. Sometimes you're so in it
together and you're having an incredible conversation
and you walk into his trailer and he's got all these
people on the walls.
Huge intense picture of Michael Jordan
and he's sitting there and he's so intense sometimes.
But then you're in that
moment. I just looked at you. We had talked so much about
that moment. He's looking into infinity
when he's looking into this child's eyes.
It's a moment. He's looking at someone who's not judging
him, but who will judge him for the rest of
his life. It's a big moment.
It's a big moment.
He's thinking of
everything he's ever done wrong. He's thinking
of everything that he's going to try to do right
and he can't
handle it. He's thinking about this
dream that he's put to bed and there's
a sadness to that, but there's also a happiness
because it was killing him.
You have this conversation
and then you get to set and you think
as a director, maybe I'll remind him of this stuff.
You walk into the room and you just see Timmy like this.
Listening to music.
I make eye contact with him
and his eyes already look like they're ready to go.
He's just like, I'm out.
I'm not going to say anything to him.
Then you do a take and there's
a fake baby.
You're just like, no, we can't do it.
You only get 11 minutes with an infant.
Really? We had two infants.
He was good about not being
shocked that it was switched.
Timothy, what was the favorite piece of direction
that Josh gave you or note?
Man, it was the
first shot we did in the film in the shooting schedule
which is the first shot we did is Marty
walking down a street in Paris
or what we designed to look like Paris.
We did the first take and Josh said,
more swagger, more audacity, more swagger.
I've worked on a number of
projects. No one's ever said to me more swagger,
more audacity. I thought, wow, this is
going to be fun, man. This guy's pushing me in a direction
that's like... I remember your face
because I was like, more swagger.
I said, this is what's going on in your head.
You had the glasses on. I put contact
lenses. He put plus
six and a half contact lenses into his eyes
and negative six and a half
prescription eyeglasses in front of them.
It was his day one and he was like,
this is a whole new guy. He's looking at
the world literally differently.
You went negative 10 but then
I was banging to walls and stuff.
He called me. He sent me FaceTime and I was like,
oh my God, it looks amazing. He goes, I'm going to
throw up, Josh. I can't do negative
10. We got to ease it up.
Then I said
to him, all right, let's go down. Eventually, he said
he feels comfortable with negative six and a half.
That's
still crazy. Every once in a while, I put them on.
Made yourself blind and then got glasses
to correct your vision.
Living a life of visual
impairment. That's not the way he's perceived
by people. That's just the lived experience.
When those glasses come off, it's a minute
detail in the movie but when I fly through the floor
and the bathtub, he's walking through the hallway,
Marty, without glasses.
I think
for me, that contributes to that
New York feeling.
Your audacity is your personality
regardless of how you look, whether you're
sinewy, whatever. I know that because I
grew up with that. I went to LaGuardia. I know
that feeling where it's like,
if we
didn't go to school together, everyone here knows
that person.
That carries himself with that.
They lead with their personality.
He says one long leap.
I said, these are long strides. This guy
is one foot. He's trying to climb
there quicker. I said, he got caught
in a lie in Amsterdam. He's starting
to think about how he's going to correct it. You looked
at me and you're like, wow.
I remember being like, okay, this is going to be a great
collaboration because you looked
at me and you said, all right, I got it. In the next
take, I could see that you were thinking about it.
You could see that. That's a good
director. That's a good actor. That's a good
team right there because you listen to each other but you need
someone to push you as a director.
Was there ever a choice that
Timothy made where you were like,
interesting, or
you're like, that's actually better than I thought.
I'm going to use that. There's a couple of them.
There's a bunch in the movie.
We would do a lot of takes and then
sometimes we would go out so far away from the script
and we'd end up coming back to it.
I'll say two of them
really quickly. One of them was
with Kevin O'Leary in the
restaurant scene where he
talks about his son dying
and he laughs.
It was nervous laughter. He just naturally
did it. It was nervous laughter.
I said,
I actually kind of like it because I have nervous
laughter too.
There was something
really human about it.
It was something that he felt in the moment.
I think
it's kind of humbling
but it's also kind of a dickish moment.
Again, it speaks to that whole thing about
because Kevin O'Leary just made the nasty
comment about my son died liberating
you. My son died liberating
you, which is latent anti-Semitism.
The other one that I really like is
he does that scene when he's getting arrested
and the guy who's arresting
him, this guy worked
at a cemetery for a long time and he
was amazing in all of our auditions
and then Ratzo, Larry Ratzo
Sloman, who I worked with
before and he was more of a TV,
more radio personality.
He's incredible but it's a
six-page scene and I'm sometimes with some
of these first-timers or these people
who are not used to doing six-page scenes, I have
to lean on Timmy and Timmy's
kind of guiding the scene through
his performance sometimes.
Nudging, doing something
that's going to force this person to remember
where they are in the moment and that was very
helpful but he did this one thing the first time
and it's one of my favorite moments of the movie.
We talked about, for some reason you were really
into, you thought Marty
his toiletries because he travels
all over the world are so important
to him. That's like his home is
this toiletry.
He's a man of beauty.
The suits are perfect, the hair is perfect.
He's an Adonis.
Yeah, and so he talked
for some reason, Timmy really was like, I want to have this
in the toiletry kit and I'll have that and I love
that. I enjoy those conversations.
In the scene, he takes it and puts it
and he goes, my toiletries!
And there was something, I was
hilarious because it was like, that was
everything to this guy and his toiletries
are being taken from him. There's also great
comedy in this movie as well
and great delivery. I told you
there's that one where you go, I know Mrs.
I hate, that's why I don't use, I don't like this
brand of shoes, whatever, it's like Colson's shoes.
They're too small. They don't fit on
dolls. They don't fit on dolls. That's
so funny and I was like, dude, I'm going to love
this movie. You know who that is
that he's talking to? That's Marianne from Brooklyn, like the
best Howard Stern co-star. Yes!
That's exactly who that is. No way!
I was like, I was wondering who that
was. Is the Gwyneth
character based on someone?
Loosely, it's loosely, the
back story is kind of derived from
Ruby Keillor and
Grace Kelly and a few
other silent movie
actresses but it's an amalgamation
of people and Gwyneth
is in that too. Gwyneth herself
is in that part as well. Yeah.
To some degree. How do you, as an actor
work with Gwyneth Paltrow
who's done this for decades
as opposed to Ratso?
I found the experience enlivening
in an equal way. I remember the first time I
worked with Gwyneth, I remember thinking to myself, wow, she's
really talented and then thinking like
I felt like I was the first person to ever
know that and quickly correct
myself to go, no, I'm working
with this
screen legend, Shakespeare in Love and everything else that she's
been tremendous in. I love working
with Ratso, with Luke Manley
who plays Dion in this movie.
The first time actors, because
acting is a representation of humanity. We're
in a room full of actors right now.
You have
people who approach it through a
training lens and that's appropriate too and
you have people that really just step into it. I feel
like if a scene was dead with some of the
non-actors, that was really on me.
It puts you
on your toes.
It's a good challenge. It's also amazing
sometimes there'll be
a lot of crew members
and there's a certain anxiety being on set.
I'll do a number of takes like with Ratso that day
and you feel like, okay, this is kind of flat and then all of a sudden
there'll be a magical moment.
Do you get it out of them? I don't think I necessarily
have anything to do. Sometimes they have to do it three or four times.
Sometimes they have to get the nerves out. Sometimes maybe
to steal Josh's words,
maybe I'll try to trigger them in some way or do
something that brings out the lines.
Like if you laugh at Kevin O'Leary.
Yeah, that's a good point. Kevin
is a good example that he would, I feel like
unbeknownst to him, sometimes he would
sink into a really
great piece of acting.
It was thrilling
from a collaborative perspective
with Josh. I've never had this experience.
I'll be lucky to ever have it again if I do.
He'd call cut
on the take and I'd go to him and go, wow,
what that person just did was incredible.
I had that experience.
They shut the door and they're like, oh my god, that was great.
There we go, we're cool.
Even with Odessa, there was a scene in the hospital
where she's getting wheeled down on the gurney
and I remember,
I don't want to speak out of turn, but I remember on that day
her not being maybe super satisfied
with the performance she was giving and I remember just
thinking to myself, she is incredible
in this scene. She looks full of desperation
and anguish and the father
of her children is leaving her and
it was a fantastic
position Josh put me in collaboratively.
Speaking of that moment, she was
like, I didn't do it. Can we do one more?
One more. And I was like, we did enough.
You're perfect. I don't need anything else. We're good.
That was so Odessa.
But that moment when you
see Marty looking
and knowing he's not
in control of himself in that moment.
He is possessed. The illusion
of individualism is that you're in control.
You're not in control.
There's limits to that.
You're possessed by a dream.
And
in that moment, you see the little
boy in him being like,
I got it.
I think I have to go.
And it's the wrong thing
to do, but it's the right thing
to do.
In his mind, he's like, I didn't ask her to go
and do that thing.
She went and did that on her own.
She's here with the hospital
now, but
it takes him to see that dream
go to bed, to realize all that stuff
was wrong, but the way you performed
it. I remember we did three takes of the push-in
into you and it was tied in a really
long shot going all the way down that hallway.
And then at the end,
what's nice about doing long takes is you
can let the actors go all the way
through it. And then at the end, I'm on
the mic talking to the camera guy and I'm like,
alright, now it's push-in. And then it pushes
in and Tim is able
to watch that whole take of Odessa
going nuts.
Don't go, don't go.
And the way that moment
is filled with so much nuance because the music
is climbing. And when he gets off that plane,
there's a triumph to it.
Even though you're
not rooting for it, but you're rooting for it.
And there's something very interesting going on
there. And it's all, again, I gotta tip
my hat to Timmy there because
this movie is Marty Supreme.
It's funny, people
sometimes call him, they think his
name is Marty Supreme.
Like the way kids call
the shark in Jaws, Jaws.
Yeah, that's not his name.
They're like, oh man, I loved it when Marty
Supreme did this. And I was like,
yeah.
Yeah, your name isn't Marty Supreme.
But it is.
I also love that 824,
you put out this movie. It's in
theaters. We all need movie theaters
to succeed and survive and people
to go to pay tickets and go
to see the movies. You did that.
Made over $116 million.
Not streaming yet. Just in theaters
alone. Thank you for doing that.
It's crazy to hear.
It's surreal to hear.
I need it for my career so I'm being
a little selfish.
But I thank you for doing that and for
believing that and pushing for that.
What's crazy is this is such a personal
movie and
it really is, to me,
a moving
piece of art that I get
to experience. I get to watch him.
I get to watch this thing and it's really
epic.
But it's also very small.
It's amazing to me
to see the audience that it's found.
It's surreal. It's hard.
It's impossible for me
to really understand it.
It's impossible. I'm totally humbled
and weirded out by it.
Do you understand what's going on?
No, I don't. I walk in.
Every time I go into a movie theater, I expect
there to be eight people.
It's a true thing. I once did a Q&A for one of my
films. I walked in. I said to the theater manager,
how many people in there? He goes, there's two people in there.
I go, really? He goes, you don't have to do a Q&A.
I was like, I must.
You can call them at home. I'll give you their phone numbers.
Clearly, you guys can see I talk too much.
I literally did a one-hour Q&A.
To call it a
Q&A is very misleading. It was a conversation.
It was more of an A.
They didn't get to ask
any questions. It was all of an A.
Someone I was talking to.
The other person was someone who worked at the theater.
It was literally one paying customer.
My point is, when I walk in and I see this,
this is like, I'll never...
Isn't it cool?
I want to mention really quick.
You got 11 BAFTA nominations.
DGA nominee. PGA nominee.
Winner, New York Film Critics Circle.
Best screenplay. Winner, LA Film Critics.
Best editing.
Nine Oscar nominations.
Best picture.
Josh and Timothy, both producers.
Best director, Josh Safdie.
Best original screenplay, Josh Safdie.
I have to do it.
Best editing, Josh Safdie.
Ronald Bronstein.
Best actor, Timothy Chalamet.
Best casting, Jennifer Vendetti.
Great casting, by the way.
Best cinematography, Darius Kanji.
Best costume design.
Is it...
Bianco Belizi.
Fantastic. Best production design, Jack Fisk.
I want to say congratulations.
Thank you for making a piece of art.
It was awesome.
And thanks for talking to everybody.
Thank you everybody for staying late.
We appreciate it.