Some go to great lengths for their art. Timothée Chalamet has gone to great heights.
This week, he became the first person ever to pop up on top of the Sphere in Las Vegas—the latest in a vast series of stunts undertaken to promote his new movie, Marty Supreme (“an American film that comes out Christmas Day 2025!” he shouts, wearing a custom Givenchy by Sarah Burton quarter zip and pants, in a clip shared on social media), and executed in collaboration with Cash App (he’s a spokesperson).
Raised 366 feet in the air, with the Sphere’s 1.2 million LED pucks coordinated to transform it into a ginormous orange ping-pong ball, Chalamet yells and whoops. Then the camera (affixed to a drone) pans out, and the two-time Oscar nominee starts to shrink—a wedding-cake topper turned ant.
The character he plays in Marty Supreme has no desire to feel small in the universe, but Chalamet has been dreaming of the Sphere-as-canvas since he was in production on Wonka, which came out in 2023. (Picture a giant bonbon.) He revived conversations as he was preparing to promote Dune. Neither collaboration quite fruitionized, as Chalamet might put it. Still, he remained in touch with the space’s executives.
“We’re a fan of his,” says Carolyn Blackwood, head of Sphere Studios. “So it’s super organic to be having discussions—big and small—about things we can do with him. And obviously, this film in particular is very special to him.”
Indeed. Since Marty Supreme’s premiere at the New York Film Festival in September, Chalamet has been on a promotional tear, designing and selling custom merch, hosting screenings, blanketing his social media with exhortations to DREAM BIG, sitting down with late-night hosts and YouTube stars, weaponizing the mere notion of a Zoom meeting, renting a blimp, rapping, and appearing on the cover of this magazine, trumpeting his faith in the project.
