Gwyneth Paltrow Reveals the Marty Supreme Mix-up That Had Timothée Chalamet Saying, ‘Are You Insane?’
Gwyneth Paltrow is the first to laugh about the Marty Supreme mix-up that had Timothée Chalamet saying, “Are you insane?”
On The Awardist podcast, Paltrow explained that in the first days of shooting Josh Safdie’s new film, the makeup team gave Chalamet’s character such convincing acne scarring that she assumed it was real. Wanting to be helpful, she leaned in with a skincare suggestion: micro-needling for what she thought were old “scars.”
“His skin was always so beautiful,” she recalled, saying she didn’t realize anything had changed until they were face-to-face on set. That’s when Chalamet set her straight. “He’s like, ‘Are you insane? Like, this is makeup… I have good skin,’” Paltrow said, adding that she immediately apologized and praised the team’s work.
It’s not the first time she’s brought up the transformation. On The Run-Through with Vogue podcast, Paltrow described how Marty Supreme gave Chalamet pockmarks, beady eyes via contacts and glasses, and a generally rougher look — all a sharp contrast to what she again called his “beautiful skin” in real life.
The moment also fits neatly into Paltrow’s long-running skincare story line. She’s talked about professional treatments like micro-needling before, and in a 2023 interview she name-checked Mario Badescu’s classic drying lotion as her go-to spot treatment when an actual breakout shows up, calling it the best pimple solution she’s used.
On the movie side, Paltrow has been steadily pulling back the curtain on Marty Supreme for months. She plays Kay Stone, a wealthy socialite and fading movie star married to someone in the “ping-pong mafia,” while Chalamet plays the young table-tennis phenom who crashes into her life. “We have a lot of sex in this movie,” she said of the pair’s intense, transactional relationship — which drew some controversy when it came to how the two handled the intimacy coordinator on set.
All of it lands in a culture that’s already rethinking how we talk about acne and scars. Dermatologists and advocates have pointed to the “acne-positive” movement — particularly among Gen Z — as a way to normalize breakouts while still encouraging people to seek treatment when they need it.
For Paltrow and Chalamet, though, the only confirmed blemishes are the ones created by the makeup team. Marty Supreme is currently slated as an awards-season hopeful, with an ensemble cast that includes Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler, the Creator, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher.
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