At a Glance
- Robert Pattinson secretly voices the British Open umpire in Marty Supreme.
- Director Josh Safdie confirmed the cameo during a Jan. 13 BFI London event.
- The blink-and-you-miss-it moment marks Pattinson’s first Safdie project since 2017’s Good Time.
- Why it matters: Fans hunting Easter eggs now have fresh motivation to re-watch the Golden Globe-winning film.
Robert Pattinson has an uncredited voice cameo in Marty Supreme, director Josh Safdie revealed at the British Film Institute in London on January 13. The Twilight alum provides the distinct British accent heard during the British Open semifinals scene that opens the movie.
“No one knows this, but that voice – the commentator, the umpire – is Pattinson,” Safdie told the audience, according to Variety. “It’s like a little Easter egg. Nobody knows about that.”
Safdie explained the casting choice happened organically. Pattinson visited the editing suite to watch early footage, and the director seized the moment. “I was like, ‘I don’t know any British people,'” Safdie said. “So, he’s the umpire.”
The brief vocal appearance reunites Pattinson with the Safdie brothers after their 2017 crime thriller Good Time. Pattinson initiated that collaboration by sending an unsolicited email requesting a meeting. “It was just kind of agreed that we would do something,” the actor told Vulture shortly after Good Time premiered. “It wasn’t about any particular project or anything. But I remember leaving the meeting and thinking, ‘Yeah.'”
Pattinson, now 39, recalled the unique energy of negotiating with two directors instead of one. “Usually a meeting about a movie is just with the director. And you’re kind of trying to impress them and they’re trying to impress you. So, to have it with two people, it was more like entering a show.”
That creative environment appealed to the actor, who welcomed the chance to step inside the Safdies’ self-contained world. “I knew that to get to a certain level of energy that I wanted, you have to commit to somebody else’s world,” he said in 2017. “And it seemed like they had a self-contained world that they were a part of, that they weren’t just trying to make a movie or whatever. But it felt like an entire environment you could go into.”
The new voice cameo keeps that collaborative spirit alive without requiring on-camera time-perfect for the father of a 22-month-old daughter with fiancée Suki Waterhouse.
Key Takeaways
- Pattinson’s voice surfaces only once, so viewers need sharp ears during the opening ping-pong tournament.
- The covert casting continues a decade-long creative friendship that began with an email and a handshake.
- Marty Supreme already claimed Golden Globe glory for star Timothée Chalamet; now it offers fans a fresh reason to hit play again.
