Josh Safdie has secretly reunited with his Good Time star Robert Pattinson on Marty Supreme.
During a conversation at London’s BFI Southbank on Tuesday, the director revealed that Pattinson had a voice role in Timothée Chalamet’s table tennis drama. “Nobody knows this, but that voice, that commentator, that referee is Pattinson,” Safdie said. “It’s like a little Easter egg. No one knows about it. …He came and saw something and I thought, ‘No one knows an Englishman. So he’s the referee.’
At the beginning of the A24 movie, Pattinson can be heard as the announcer during the British Open semi-final scene where Chalamet’s Marty Mouser faces Hungarian champion Bela Klecki (Czeza Roerig).
The revelation puts into context the moment in Pattinson’s “lie detector test” video for Vanity Fair when Die My Love co-star Jennifer Lawrence asks Pattinson, “You once worked with Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie on Good Time, right?” Would you like to work with them again? ” Pattinson flatly answered “yes,” and the polygraph examiner declared this answer “deceptive.” Pattinson laughed and said, “That’s crazy.” Perhaps he was trying to hide a secret!
Pattinson starred in the Safdie brothers’ 2017 crime thriller Good Time, playing Connie, a criminal who does everything possible to free her developmentally disabled brother, played by Benny Safdie, from police custody. Pattinson is also scheduled to appear on screen opposite Chalamet in Dune: Part 3, which will be released in December 2026. Pattinson will play the shape-shifting villain Scytail, who plots against Chalamet’s savior Paul Atreides.
Elsewhere in the chat with Safdie, moderated by presenter Edith Bowman, the helmer recalled the first time he met Chalamet at the afterparty for the “Good Time” premiere. “When an agent comes to me and says, ‘I want to introduce you to the next superstar,’ that’s already a red flag,” he said. “And he had big eyes and he was kind of in the corner of the room and he was there but not where he wanted to be and he had the best vision of himself. He was like Timmy Supreme and it was intense.”
After seeing Call Me by Your Name, Safdie was so taken with him that he wrote the screenplay for Marty Supreme with Chalamet in mind. “He’s a movie star,” Safdie continued. “You know this intense dreamer. This relentless, driven New Yorker?”
During the audience Q&A at the end of the talk, Safdie was asked if he had any plans for his next project. And he said the same question once made him cry during a panel discussion after the release of Uncut Gems.
“I was very embarrassed. In a question-and-answer session like this, I was like, ‘I don’t want to think about it too much,'” he recalled. “So, that’s my situation right now. Every time I shoot a movie, there’s no more gas left in the car. So I have to go find a gas station, right?”
