Most athletes play ping pong to whet their competitive instincts or kill time. But what if it could actually improve ...

A few years ago, when Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet said his next project involved ping pong, people were perplexed. The star had already been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as ...

Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...

In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved." By Lexi Carson ...

BOTTOM LINE Chalamet leaves it all on the table in this high-stakes drama about a small-scale sport. Marty Mauser looks like a harmless sort with his skinny arms, wire-rimmed glasses and peach-fuzz ...

Marty Reisman was nicknamed "The Needle" for his slender physique. He dressed well and put on a show. The real ping pong champion — and hustler — who inspired 'Marty Supreme' In the 1940s and '50s, ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

In Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet plays a true hustler. The character is one of the world’s greatest table tennis players, and he is willing to do just about anything to prove it – and that means ...

“Drama is very important to me. I can’t undercut the drama,” notes one of the year’s most deeply carved cinematic characters, Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet with a staggering commitment to ...

Long before Timothée Chalamet starred in “Marty Supreme” — the hotly anticipated movie that hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day — there was Marty “The Needle” Reisman, the wild-eyed, high-strung ...

Scott Gordon admitted his feelings evolved on the much-anticipated movie “Marty Supreme.” Gordon, 65, a longtime competitive table tennis player who lives in Carmichael, consulted on the Josh ...

Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right. Marty Reisman won 22 major table tennis ...