The Team Behind ‘Marty Supreme’ Knew They Had Something Special [EXCLUSIVE]
Marty Supreme is already a lot of things. A viral marketing juggernaut. A possible road for Timothee Chalamet to finally win an Oscar.
The movie is already being celebrated quite a bit before it even properly makes its debut in theaters… a sentiment that is apparently shared behind the scenes, as well. In exclusive interviews with The Mary Sue, some of the cast and crew of Marty Supreme reacted to the early hype surrounding the film.
“Oh, we love it,” cinematographer Darius Khondji revealed. “We love it. I love it. I didn’t know, I had no idea it was going to go like this. When we did the film, we still did a movie, but we didn’t think about all this is happening now. The Beetlemania and all the thing going around. The bus. It’s crazy. It’s so fun. It’s really fun. I’m actually following it on Instagram, because it’s just so fun to see the balloon in the air above Los Angeles and above the states and everything that Timothee is doing with his styling. He loves it, you know. You can see he really is into it. It’s just very exciting. I want that jacket. I want to do more movies like this. I wanted like Star Wars or something like that, because it’s very exciting. It feels like Star Wars, but in a new modern contemporian way. Not like the old way of doing things. We turn the page, I think, in cinema in a way we’re doing it. It’s fantastic.”
Wait… who is in the cast of Marty Supreme?!
One of the most noteworthy aspects of Marty Supreme has been the people in its ensemble cast, with Chalamet being joined by everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow to Penn Gilette to Kevin O’Leary (yes, of Shark Tank fame). For casting director Jennifer Venditti, there was magic to be found in the approach to casting and cameos, which she wanted to have sneak up on the audience in a unique way.
“I feel like you have to do it really intentionally, in a way that doesn’t seem heavy,” Venditti argued. “Because sometimes, if there’s too many obvious cameos, it takes you out a little bit. And I think the thing with this movie is, a lot of the cameos, people don’t know who they are. Like, a lot of people don’t recognize Penn [Gillette], you know? Yeah. And then they’re like, ‘Wait, where was he?’ So I think it’s cool to have. There’s so many people [who] I don’t think people notice that are in [the movie], and we’re not picking them for that. We’re picking them ’cause we love their character, who they are as characters, you know? And I think it’s cool because they blend in, but then if you’re really going through it, you get the surprise of like, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t, I didn’t even notice that.’ So yeah, it’s very cool.”
O’Leary, who plays Milton Rockwell in Marty Supreme, had a different qualifier of the movie’s success.
“I don’t think a single person left the screening,” O’Leary revealed. “And so I think as an index, if you want to call it that, to measure success, nobody left. They stayed for another hour through [the] Q&A. So that was a good signal to me.”
Marty Supreme is now playing in select theaters, before opening everywhere on Christmas Day.
(featured image: A24)
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