{"id":150527,"date":"2025-08-16T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/150527\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:54:14","slug":"nycs-john-catsimatidis-makes-debut-in-timothee-chalamet-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/150527\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s John Catsimatidis makes debut in Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet flick"},"content":{"rendered":"

City billionaire John Catsimatidis is making his big-screen debut in heartthrob Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s<\/a> newest film, \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d \u2014 and, in true form, is making cash off griping about the high cost of things.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually got paid! I\u2019m a member of SAG. And so I got a new career at my age,\u201d the 76-year-old supermarket mogul <\/a>told The Post on Friday.<\/p>\n

New York City supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis is making his film debut in the upcoming Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet movie \u201cMarty Supreme.\u201d x\/RealChalamet<\/p>\n

\u201cJosh Safdie \u2014 who is the big producer on it \u2014 he was looking for Upper West Side people and approached me, and I said, \u2018Yeah! Sounds like fun!\u2019 \u201d the mogul said.<\/p>\n

Catsimatidis \u2014 who is also famous these days for his WABC radio show, where he regularly complains about rising costs in the city \u2014 revealed he will star in \u201ctwo or three scenes\u201d of the new film about the life of a fictional table-tennis star, Marty Mauser.<\/p>\n

The inspiration for the main character comes from the life of legend Marty Reisman, who ran a ping pong parlor in an Upper West Side building owned by Catsimatidis, and others who frequented the spot.<\/p>\n

The onetime mayoral candidate also makes a cameo in the final seconds of the film\u2019s trailer, which was released Wednesday, in a scene in which Chalamet tries to convince two men with New York accents to purchase a custom orange ping pong ball with his name branded on the surface.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a new career at my age,\u201d Catsimatidis crowed to The Post. Aristide Economopoulos<\/p>\n

Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a fictionalized version of table tennis legend Marty Reisman. x\/RealChalamet<\/p>\n

\u201cA custom ball like that, it\u2019s going to cost a lot of money,\u201d Catsimatidis tells the <\/a>actor.<\/p>\n

When it came to working with the Academy Award-nominated Chalamet, Catsimatidis admitted he had no idea who the heartthrob was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never knew who he was! I was complaining to the director that he was getting a bigger role than me!\u201d he quipped to The Post.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t clear whether Chalamet, a fellow New Yorker and public-school graduate, knew who Catsimatidis was before filming.<\/p>\n

Catsimatidis admitted he didn\u2019t know who Chalamet was. GC Images<\/p>\n

Catsimatidis said his ping pong-peddling scene took as many as seven hours to shoot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say I\u2019m used to days of work for five days,\u201d Catsimatidis told The Post. \u201c[Filming] was like 14-hour days. By the time I got [done], it was like midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City billionaire John Catsimatidis is making his big-screen debut in heartthrob Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s newest film, \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,24589,84735,5248,88442,405,403,7619,5226,5225,5228,5227,32771,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-150527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-john-catsimatidis","10":"tag-josh-safdie","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-movie-trailers","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-life","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-timothee-chalamet","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115038549751467558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}