Timothée Chalamet has sparked a social media firestorm after releasing a deliberately outrageous marketing pitch for his upcoming film Marty Supreme. During a staged Zoom call, one of the participants suggested that the Statue of Liberty should be painted a vivid shade of orange — a proposal so absurd that it immediately captured public attention. The video went viral on TikTok, X, and Instagram, and the controversy drew both fans and critics into the discussion. The stunt has transformed a niche table-tennis film into one of the most talked-about releases of the year, generating enormous hype ahead of its December debut.
The clip shows Chalamet playing a self-aware, exaggerated version of a movie star turned marketer, pitching a series of outlandish promotional ideas to a fictional agency team. Among them are repainting famous landmarks, launching an orange blimp, and even flooding the sky with ping-pong balls. The notion of colouring historic sites orange, particularly the Statue of Liberty, stirred strong reactions and quickly became central to the ongoing cultural conversation about Marty Supreme, a debate that had been simmering long before the production ever debuted.
