Robert Pattinson Had a Secret Role in "Marty Supreme"

It turns out Josh Safdie secretly reunited with his “Good Time” star Robert Pattinson on Timothée Chalamet's ping pong drama “Marty Supreme.”

During a conversation at London’s BFI Southbank, the director revealed Pattinson had a secret and unexpected role in the A24 film.

“No one knows this, but that voice — the commentator, the umpire — is Pattinson,” Safdie said. “It’s like a little easter egg. Nobody knows about that. … He came and watched some stuff and I was like, I don’t know any British people. So he’s the umpire.”

Pattinson can be heard as the announcer during the British Open semifinals scene toward the beginning of the film, as Chalamet’s Marty Mauser faces off against Hungarian champion Bela Kletzki (Géza Röhrig).

This revelation sheds context on a moment in Pattinson’s “Lie Detector Test” video with Vanity Fair, in which his “Die My Love” co-star Jennifer Lawrence asked him, “You once worked with Josh and Benny Safdie on ‘Good Time.’ Would you want to work with them again?” Pattinson definitively said yes, and the polygraph examiner declared that this answer was “deceptive.”

Pattinson laughed and said, “That’s crazy.” Perhaps he was trying to conceal a secret!".

The Batman actor starred in the Safdie brothers’ 2017 crime thriller “Good Time,” playing a criminal named Connie who goes to extreme lengths to free his developmentally disabled brother, played by Benny Safdie, from police custody.

Pattinson will also appear on screen opposite Chalamet in “Dune: Part Three,” out December 2026.

He’ll play the shape-shifting villain Scytale, who plots against Chalamet’s messianic Paul Atreides.

Elsewhere in the conversation, which was moderated by presenter Edith Bowman, Safdie reflected on the first time he met Chalamet at the afterparty for the “Good Time” premiere.

“An agent came up to me and said, ‘I want to introduce you to the next superstar,’ which is already a red flag,” he said. “And he’s got these wide eyes and he’s like in the corner of the room, there but not where he wants to be, and he just had this supreme vision of himself. He was like Timmy Supreme, and it was intense.”

After seeing “Call Me by Your Name,” Safdie was sold and wrote the script for “Marty Supreme” with Chalamet in mind.

“He’s a movie star,” Safdie continued. “This intense dreamer. Relentless, driven, this New Yorker, you know?”.

During an audience Q&A at the end of the talk, Safdie was asked if he had any plans for his next movie.

He then shared that the same question once made him cry during a panel after the release of “Uncut Gems.”

“I was so embarrassed. I was at a Q&A just like this like, ‘I don’t really want to think about it,'” he recalled. “So that’s a little bit where I’m at right now. After each film, I’ve got no more gas left in the car. So I’ve got to like, go find a gas station, you know?”