{"id":411586,"date":"2026-01-14T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411586\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:00:08","slug":"robert-pattinsons-secret-marty-supreme-role-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411586\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Pattinson&#8217;s Secret Marty Supreme Role Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/intro-1768345890.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2075504\/robert-pattinson-marty-supreme-role-explained\/\" data-post-id=\"2075504\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Robert Pattinson's Secret Marty Supreme Role, Explained: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet as Marty Mauser pointing while holding a ping pong paddle in Marty Supreme\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    A24<\/p>\n<p>This article contains spoilers for &#8220;Marty Supreme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s common for directors and actors who enjoy working together to repeat their collaborations across multiple films, but writer\/director Josh Safdie snuck a sneaky role into his hit table tennis dramedy &#8220;Marty Supreme&#8221; for actor Robert Pattinson, who previously starred in Josh and his brother Benny&#8217;s 2017 thriller &#8220;Good Time.&#8221; In fact, it was so sneaky that Pattinson had to fib about it a little bit on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QG8p2LZFVSo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vanity Fair lie detector test<\/a> video when asked if he would ever work with the Safdies again. His response is pretty funny. In a\u00a0conversation at London&#8217;s BFI Southbank (via <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/robert-pattinson-marty-supreme-secret-role-1236630455\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Variety<\/a>), Josh Safdie revealed that he had Pattinson do a small voice role in &#8220;Marty Supreme,&#8221; although it wasn&#8217;t exactly planned from the beginning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Safdie, Pattinson voices the umpire at the British Open semifinals near the beginning of the film, a role that came about due to Safdie and Pattinson hanging out and Safdie realizing he needed a British actor to voice the umpire. Pattinson has the right accent (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/1694734\/robert-pattinson-weirdest-movie-accents-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">when he&#8217;s not doing a weird one for a role<\/a>) and was apparently totally game.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2039927\/marty-supreme-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chalamet might be the chaotic driving force behind &#8220;Marty\u00a0Supreme,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0but it&#8217;s fun to know that one of our greatest contemporary actors is also a part of\u00a0Safdie&#8217;s ping-pong epic.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                Robert Pattinson voicing the umpire in Marty Supreme makes the movie that much better<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/robert-pattinson-voicing-the-umpire-in-marty-supreme-makes-the-movie-that-much-better-1768345891.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2075504\/robert-pattinson-marty-supreme-role-explained\/\" data-post-id=\"2075504\" data-slide-num=\"1\" data-slide-title=\"Robert Pattinson's Secret Marty Supreme Role, Explained: Robert Pattinson voicing the umpire in Marty Supreme makes the movie that much better\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Robert Pattinson as one of the Mickeys in Mickey 17, smiling\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I&#8217;m of the opinion that Robert Pattinson automatically improves every project he touches by the sheer nature of just being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/785153\/robert-pattinsons-most-pattinsoniest-performances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of cinema&#8217;s best weird little guys<\/a> (he&#8217;s over six feet tall, but little is a state of mind, okay?). From his more serious roles in films like &#8220;Good Time&#8221; to his absolutely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/1804931\/why-mickey-17-best-robert-pattinson-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bonkers but perfect performances in things like Bong Joon Ho&#8217;s &#8220;Mickey 17,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Pattinson always understands the assignment.\u00a0While that means that his performance in &#8220;Marty Supreme&#8221; is pretty understated because Safdie didn&#8217;t need him to steal the spotlight, it&#8217;s still a lot of fun.\u00a0The director explained how it all happened to the folks at the London\u00a0BFI Southbank, saying:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one knows this, but that voice \u2014 the commentator, the umpire \u2014 is Pattinson. It&#8217;s like a little easter egg. Nobody knows about that. [&#8230;] He came and watched some stuff and I was like, I don&#8217;t know any British people. So he&#8217;s the umpire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty funny that the first British person Safdie thought to ask was someone as famous as Pattinson, but it&#8217;s also perfect given the pure chaos that is &#8220;Marty\u00a0Supreme.&#8221; Hopefully, we&#8217;ll get to see Pattinson star in a Safdie flick again in the future, but for now, his vocal role is a nice treat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; A24 This article contains spoilers for &#8220;Marty Supreme.&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-411586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}