Most athletes play ping-pong to whet their competitive instincts or kill time, but what if it could improve performance?

A few years ago, when Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet said his next project involved ping pong, people were perplexed. The star had already been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as ...

Timothée Chalamet enjoys a spanking. The Oscar-nominated actor, 30, refused a butt double and willingly got spanked by his “Marty Supreme” co-star Kevin O’Leary in a critical scene in the A24 film.

The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick. By Esther Zuckerman When Josh Safdie was ...

Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...

In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved." By Lexi Carson ...

BOTTOM LINE Chalamet leaves it all on the table in this high-stakes drama about a small-scale sport. Marty Mauser looks like a harmless sort with his skinny arms, wire-rimmed glasses and peach-fuzz ...

Marty Reisman was nicknamed "The Needle" for his slender physique. He dressed well and put on a show. The real ping pong champion — and hustler — who inspired 'Marty Supreme' In the 1940s and '50s, ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

Timothée Chalamet wouldn’t be everyone’s first thought when it comes to playing a character like Midnight Cowboy’s Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), a fast-talking New York hustler always on the run from ...

In Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet plays a true hustler. The character is one of the world’s greatest table tennis players, and he is willing to do just about anything to prove it – and that means ...

“Drama is very important to me. I can’t undercut the drama,” notes one of the year’s most deeply carved cinematic characters, Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet with a staggering commitment to ...