Baller, Shot-Caller: A Closer Look at Timothée Chalamet’s No

On Wednesday afternoon, Timothée Chalamet hinted to his 19.5 million Instagram followers that something was coming. Just what that was , however, he would not say.

While on his Stories, a black slide read, in an orange sans-serif font, “@voguemagazine 8PM,” a gallery shared to his grid showed the 29-year-old actor on a dimly lit indoor basketball court, wearing a gray hoodie and orange track pants, his figure doubled in a free-standing mirror; a fleet of people in black hoodies with enormous, orange Ping-Pong balls for heads (a familiar sight, by now, to anyone who’s been following Chalamet’s gonzo promotional tour for Marty Supreme , his new sports drama with director Josh Safdie, out this Christmas); Chalamet again—far better lit this time, with his buzzcut on glorious display;