Josh Safdie and Robert Pattinson, who starred in “Good Time,” had a covert reunion on “Marty Supreme.” The filmmaker said that Pattinson had a vocal part in the Timothée Chalamet table tennis drama at a discussion on Tuesday at London’s BFI Southbank.
Safdie remarked, “No one knows this, but that voice—the commentator, the umpire—is Pattinson. It’s like a little easter egg. Nobody knows about that. … He came and watched some stuff, and I was like, I don’t know any British people. So he’s the umpire.”
When Chalamet’s Marty Mauser takes on Hungarian veteran Bela Kletzki (Géza Röhrig) in the British Open semifinals sequence toward the start of the movie, Pattinson can be heard serving as the announcer.
This information clarifies a scene in Pattinson’s Vanity Fair “Lie Detector Test” video when Jennifer Lawrence, his co-star from “Die My Love,” asked him, “You once worked with Josh and Benny Safdie on ‘Good Time.” Would you want to work with them again?”
The polygraph examiner deemed Pattinson’s unambiguous affirmative response to be “deceptive.” “That’s crazy,” Pattinson remarked, laughing.
In the 2017 crime thriller “Good Time,” starring the Safdie brothers, Pattinson plays a crook named Connie who goes to great extremes to release his brother, Benny, who has an intellectual disability, from prison. In December 2026, Pattinson will make an on-screen appearance opposite Chalamet in “Dune: Part Three.”
