‘Sweet Tea’ Timothee Chalamet woos Chinese fans days before Best Actor bid
The Straits Times
The three-time Best Actor nominee is known affectionally as “tiancha”, which means “sweet tea” in Chinese. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet answered to “sweet tea” and praised a table tennis champion as he wooed Chinese fans in Beijing on March 10, days before the Academy Awards.
The 30-year-old actor is in Asia promoting the movie Marty Supreme (2025), in which he plays a 1950s table tennis champion consumed by grand ambitions.
Loosely based on a true story, and benefiting from the French-American actor’s unique viral campaign, the A24 film directed by American film-maker Josh Safdie has become an unlikely global hit.
Marty Supreme, currently showing in Singapore cinemas, is up for nine awards - including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor - at the Oscars on March 15.
At an indoor red carpet event, Chalamet delighted fans by calling China’s table tennis world No. 1 Sun Yingsha “an amazing player” after earlier purchasing a poster of the reigning world champion from a local shop.
The sport - which Chalamet spent several years mastering in preparation for the film - is hugely popular in China.
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