Timothée Chalamet’s ‘Marty Supreme’ Character Celebrated With 10-Foot Sculpture at Italy’s National Film Museum

Timothée Chalamet’s role as a ping pong prodigy in “Marty Supreme” is being celebrated by Italy’s National Film Museum in Turin with a nearly 10-foot tall sculpture in the iconic Mole Antonelliana domed tower, which is the country’s cinematic shrine.

The sculpture of Chalamet as Marty Mauser — the fictionalized version of real-life American table tennis champ Marty Reisman — has been unveiled in one of the museum’s VR rooms to promote the upcoming release of “Marty Supreme” in Italian cinemas on Jan. 22 via distributor I Wonder Pictures.

Directed by Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme” recently became A24’s highest-grossing film at the U.S. box office with a more than $80 million haul and has earned more that $100 million worldwide.

The film premiered in Italy on Nov. 26 at the Turin Film Festival as a “secret screening” event, sans talent in tow.

The Chalamet sculpture was conceived “as an independent scenic work,…