Who knew that a movie inspired by the Jewish wizard of table tennis would be so horny?
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Jewish actress Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that she and co-star Timothée Chalamet, who is also Jewish, “have a lot of sex” in their upcoming movie “Marty Supreme.”
“There’s a lot — a lot,” Gwyneth explained.
The plot of “Marty Supreme,” a movie from Safdie brother Josh Safdie, is currently being kept under wraps. However, it seems to be a fictionalized account of the life of Jewish ping-pong star Marty Reisman. Timothée is slated to star as an up-and-coming ping-pong player named Marty, who, based on production photos where he is wearing a star of David while in costume, is seemingly also Jewish. The movie also stars “The Nanny” herself, Fran Drescher, as Marty’s mother and Sandra Bernhard as a friend of Marty’s mother. In the Vanity Fair interview, Paltrow, 52, revealed that she plays the wife of a rival ping pong player and that Marty seduces her character — apparently, many times.
“This woman who is married to someone who is in the Ping-Pong mafia, as it were,” Gwyneth told Vanity Fair. “They meet and she’s had a pretty tough life, and I think he breathes life back into her, but it’s kind of transactional for them both.” She went on, apparently shrugging at all the on-screen sex she has with her 29-year-old co-star, “I was like, ‘Okay, great. I’m 109 years old. You’re 14.’”
Gwyneth Paltrow is Jewish via her father, the late director Bruce Paltrow, and his side of the family. Meanwhile, her mother, Blythe Danner, is Christian. In a Hanukkah candle-lighting video from last year, Paltrow shared that she felt fortunate that she “got to grow up with these two very different worlds and very different faiths.” Even so, “I always felt an incredible pull to my Jewish family,” Gwyneth said. “I still do. Just the traditions and the warmth and the unconditional love, and the food, and the yelling, and the family and community… I’m so close to everybody on that side of my family. We’re all kind of interwoven and so important to each other and just show up for each other again and again and again.”
Welp, I was already planning on seeing “Marty Supreme,” but now I know to definitely not watch it with my parents. Thanks, Gwyneth!
