You couldn’t make this up if you tried: A24 has now officially set up a Best Supporting Actor campaign for Kevin O’Leary — Mr. Wonderful himself — and his performance in “Marty Supreme.”
This weekend, A24 launched its FYC campaign for awards season on its website. ‘Marty’ is going for Best Picture. Timothee Chalamet for Lead Actor. Gwyneth Paltrow in Supporting Actress. O’Leary is listed as their top priority for Supporting Actor.
In “Marty Supreme” O’Leary plays “the richest man in America in 1952.” Paltrow is his unfaithful wife. Chalamet is the “other man” that come between them. It’s stunt casting, and there are no reviews currently for the film, just social media reactions from that one New York Film Festival surprise screening in October.
Here’s a snippet from a recent interview, where O’Leary spoke about the film and the character he plays:
Interviewer: Do you always wear two watches?
O'Leary: These are the two watches that have become movie stars in the movie Marty Supreme that's coming out Christmas Day. I'm in the movie with Gwyneth Paltrow
Interviewer: Gwyneth Paltrow?! She plays your wife?
O'Leary: And she's unfaithful. It's over between us let me tell you. And Timothée Chalamet might have been involved in that unfaithfulness. Right in the middle of Central Park. So nasty. I can't believe it. But I play the richest guy in America in 1952, as it should be Liz. As it should be.
Interviewer: I couldn't agree more.
O'Leary: I'm not a nice guy. Oh my goodness. I think I was able to play that role quite well.
Yes, this is the same man who admits to wearing two watches, one is set to New York time and the other to Abu Dhabi because he conducts business across different regions, and needs to keep track.
Imagine how the press tour might look like? It already started a few weeks ago when O’Leary claimed “Marty Supreme” could have cost much less if it replaced all of the extras in the film with AI. Here’s a warning to A24: it’ll only get worse, and more entertaining for us.
“Marty Supreme,” produced by A24, amdcset for release in December, has a wild cast, including O’Leary, Chalamet, Paltrow, Fran Drescher, Tyler The Creator, Abel Ferrara, Penn Jillette, and Sandra Bernhard.
Set in 1953, “Marty Supreme” will tell the wild story of a Ping Pong champion. It is said to be a “fictional work,” but Marty Reisman was used as a template. The screenplay was written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. Last year, it had been reported that Safdie’s film cost close to $70M+ to produce. It’s the most expensive movie A24 has ever produced.
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