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Chalamet debuts buzzcut during Instagram Live for Marty Supreme

Published 9 October 2025

Timothée Chalamet unveiled a dramatic new haircut Tuesday, revealing a buzzcut during an Instagram Live promotional video for his upcoming film Marty Supreme, following widespread speculation after his appearance at the New York Film Festival on Monday. In the livestream, Chalamet emerged from a clear enclosure filled with orange ping pong balls, removed an oversized ping pong ball headpiece and revealed the closely clipped style.

The reveal capped days of public curiosity after Chalamet attended a special screening of Marty Supreme at the festival. Photographs from that event showed the actor wearing a baseball cap with the sides of his head appearing closely shorn, prompting conversation about whether he had actually cut his hair. He attended the screening with his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, and addressed the audience, saying, "This movie, in many ways, beyond being about Marty Mauser is a love letter to New York."

Marty Supreme, directed by Josh Safdie, is a fictionalized period piece set in the 1950s that follows the rise of ping pong competitor Marty Mauser. The cast includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler Okonma also known as Tyler, the Creator, Odessa A'zion, Fran Drescher and...

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