Kevin O’Leary Makes Acting Debut in A24 Film ‘Marty Supreme’

The impartial movie studio, A24, has reached crucial and industrial success with many movies (All the pieces In every single place All at As soon as, Uncut Gems, Moonlight) and infrequently works with among the largest names within the enterprise (Adam Sandler, Robert Pattinson, Michelle Yeoh). So when the primary trailer dropped for Marty Supreme this week, a film a few ping-pong star, performed by A24 darling Timothée Chalamet (the movie additionally stars Fran Drescher and Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow), a jarring, unmistakable voice may be heard.

Is that…Kevin O’Leary?

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The “Shark Tank” star and enterprise capitalist performs a Nineteen Fifties tycoon within the movie — a piece of fiction however based mostly on an actual particular person, American desk tennis legend Marty Reisman. Taking part in a midcentury businessman got here simple for O’Leary, who informed TMZ (in his signature pajama bottoms) that he did not “take any performing classes.”

“[The directors] mentioned simply be your self and see what occurs,” O’Leary mentioned.

The writers of the movie had been in search of a “actual a–hole, and [said] you are it,” he added.

^{Kevin O’Leary and Timothee Chalamet are seen filming on the film set of the ‘Marty Supreme’ in Instances Sq., Manhattan, on October 02, 2024, in New York Metropolis. Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Photos | Getty}

Though some individuals had been shocked to see O’Leary have such a outstanding half within the trailer, photographs surfaced of his function final fall. And he has fourth billing, per ScreenRant, which suggests it is not a small cameo. Often, when a non-acting celeb makes an look in a function movie, it is a quick half (Eminem’s hilarious function in Comfortable Gilmore 2, for instance), or the particular person performs a model of themselves.

However on this movie, O’Leary’s character is married to Gwyneth Paltrow’s.

We’ll see how movie critics price his efficiency when the film is launched on December 25, 2025.

“It’s important to spend 30% of your day exterior your consolation zone,” O’Leary mentioned.

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