The independent movie studio, A24, has reached captious and commercialized occurrence pinch galore films (Everything Everywhere All astatine Once, Uncut Gems, Moonlight) and often useful pinch immoderate of the biggest names successful the business (Adam Sandler, Robert Pattinson, Michelle Yeoh). So erstwhile the first trailer dropped for Marty Supreme this week, a movie astir a ping-pong star, played by A24 darling Timothée Chalamet (the movie besides stars Fran Drescher and Academy Award victor Gwyneth Paltrow), a jarring, unmistakable sound tin beryllium heard.
Is that...Kevin O'Leary?
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The "Shark Tank" prima and task capitalist plays a 1950s tycoon successful the movie — a activity of fabrication but based connected a existent person, American array tennis fable Marty Reisman. Playing a midcentury businessman came easy for O'Leary, who told TMZ (in his signature pajama bottoms) that he didn't "take immoderate acting lessons."
"[The directors] said conscionable beryllium yourself and spot what happens," O'Leary said.
The writers of the movie were looking for a "real a--hole, and [said] you're it," he added.
Kevin O'Leary and Timothee Chalamet are seen filming astatine the movie group of the 'Marty Supreme' successful Times Square, Manhattan, connected October 02, 2024, successful New York City. Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images | Getty
Although immoderate group were shocked to spot O'Leary person specified a salient portion successful the trailer, photos surfaced of his domiciled past fall. And he has 4th billing, per ScreenRant, which intends it isn't a mini cameo. Usually, erstwhile a non-acting personage makes an quality successful a characteristic film, it's a short portion (Eminem's hilarious role successful Happy Gilmore 2, for example), aliases the personification plays a type of themselves.
But successful this film, O'Leary's characteristic is joined to Gwyneth Paltrow's.
We'll spot really movie critics complaint his capacity erstwhile the movie is released connected December 25, 2025.
"You person to walk 30% of your time extracurricular your comfortableness zone," O'Leary said.
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