Gwyneth Paltrow Joins Cast of Timothée Chalamet's Ping-Pong Movie Years After Hinting She Quit Acting

Mar. 15, 2025

Gwyneth Paltrow; Timothée Chalamet.Photo:Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty;Kevin Mazur/Getty

Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty;Kevin Mazur/Getty

Gwyneth Paltrowis ping-ponging her way back to the big screen.

After years of focusing on her various businesses, the Oscar winner, 51, is joining the cast ofMarty Supreme, an upcoming feature-length project from director and co-writerJosh Safdie.

Gwyneth Paltrow on Jan. 23, 2024.Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Paltrow’s casting news marks her return to film after 2019’sAvengers: Endgame, in which she reprised her role as Pepper Potts from theIron Manfranchise.Marty Supremeis her first credit since lending her voice to a 2023 episode ofAmerican Horror Storiesand an uncredited moment in the 2022 biopicShe Said. From 2019 to 2020, she starred in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix seriesThe Politician.

TheShakespeare in Lovestar previously indicated that she wasstepping away from actingto focus on lifestyle and wellness brandGoop, which she founded in 2008.

“I’m still going to do a little bit here and there, but this really requires almost all of my time,” Paltrow said onTodayback in 2017. “I had an incredible acting career, but I had this deep passion to produce content and make great products and curate things. It sort of evolved slowly and had a long gestational period and now it’s like, a real business.”

Gwyneth Paltrow on March 8, 2024.Donato Sardella/Getty

Donato Sardella/Getty

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Paltrow has alsosharedthat having now-20-year-old daughterApple(whom she shares with ex-husbandChris Martin, alongside sonMoses, 18) was another reason to semi-retire from the screen. “Once I had Apple, I really didn’t want to fly off and go [on] location, and I wanted to be home," she said during a launch event for good.clean.goop in 2023.

Last November, Paltrowhintedthat one beloved Marvel Cinematic Universe costar could sway her decision. “It would be very hard for me to do any acting right at the moment, just because of my job,” she toldEntertainment Tonight. “But I guessRobert Downey Jr.could probably always get me back.”

Chalamet, who is producingMarty Supremealongside Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Ronald Bronstein and Safdie, is set to play a fictionalized version of Reisman. The table tennis champion died in 2012. Among theDunestar’s upcoming projects isBob DylanbiopicA Complete Unknown.

source: people.com