""T hey said, 'We're looking for a real asshole, and you're it,'" Kevin O'Leary told TMZ about when Josh Safdie and his co-writer Ronald Bronstein approached him to play a key supporting role in their squalid, 1950s picaresque Marty Supreme. The film concerns a callow ping-pong prodigy (Timothée Chalamet) trying to scrounge together the money to play in a high-profile tournament in Tokyo. O'Leary plays a nasty high-roller debating whether or not to act as the kid's benefactor."
"Set a thief to cast a thief, as they say, and hire an asshole to play an asshole; sometimes, the simplest solution is the correct one. If O'Leary's account lacks the apocryphal star-is-born romanticism of Lana Turner being scouted at a soda fountain on Sunset Boulevard or Harrison Ford cold-reading for Star Wars while installing doors for Francis Ford Coppola, the end result is still one for the books."
Kevin O'Leary was approached to play a key supporting role in Marty Supreme, a squalid 1950s picaresque about a callow ping-pong prodigy trying to raise money for a Tokyo tournament. O'Leary portrays a nasty high-roller weighing whether to bankroll the youngster. Josh Safdie's casting often blurs the line between reality and performance, using actors against type or unknowns. Arielle Holmes is cited as an example of an uncut gem discovered by that approach. O'Leary's right-wing affiliations and legal troubles create a publicity risk for distributor A24, and his AI/extras remark provoked controversy.
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