Originally appeared on E! Online
Robert Pattinson paddled his way into Marty Supreme.
Indeed, it seems the “Twilight” alum had a secret role in the Timothée Chalamet movie that viewers may have missed if their ears weren’t attuned to his voice.
“No one knows this, but that voice — the commentator, the umpire — is Pattinson,” “Marty Supreme” director Josh Safdie said during an interview at the British Film Institute in London Jan. 13, per Variety, referencing the British Open semifinals scene near the beginning of the movie. “It’s like a little easter egg. Nobody knows about that.”
As for how the “Uncut Gems” director got Pattinson to lend his voice to the ping pong flick, which earned Timothée the Golden Globe for Best Male Actor in a Musical or Comedy Film?
“He came and watched some stuff and I was like, ‘I don’t know any British people,’” Safdie continued. “So, he’s the umpire.”
Pattinson’s cameo in “Marty Supreme” marks his first collaboration with Safdie since he starred in the 2017 movie “Good Time,” which Safdie and his brother Benny Safdie codirected. The partnership came about because Pattinson, eager to work with them, reached out over email and set up a meeting.
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“It was just kind of agreed that we would do something,” Pattinson told Vulture in 2017 of their first in-person conversation. “It wasn’t about any particular project or anything. But I remember leaving the meeting and thinking, ‘Yeah.’”
The 39-year-old added at the time, “Usually a meeting about a movie is just with the director. And you’re kind of trying to impress them and they’re trying to impress you. So, to have it with two people, it was more like entering a show.”
And the vibes were exactly what Pattinson — dad to a 22-month-old daughter with fiancée Suki Waterhouse — was looking for.
“That’s kind of what I wanted,” he continued. “I knew that to get to a certain level of energy that I wanted, you have to commit to somebody else’s world. And it seemed like they had a self-contained world that they were a part of, that they weren’t just trying to make a movie or whatever. But it felt like an entire environment you could go into.”
Robert Pattinson is one of the girls, according to Jennifer Lawrence. During her Oct. 17 appearance on “The Graham Norton Show,” the Oscar winner recalled a funny interaction she had with her “Die, My Love” co-star when he unexpectedly came over to her house over the holidays.
