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\u201cHello, I\u2019m Josh Safdie. I\u2019m the co-writer, co-editor, and director of \u201cMarty Supreme.\u201d This is when the dream is very much alive during the first act, and we\u2019re seeing Marty in the role that he sees himself. And I talked to Timmy about what it means to be winning. And I said, I need that to almost superhero levels. This is the character Kay Stone, the former movie star, beautifully and tragically played by Gwyneth Paltrow. \u201d … see the open window with a bowl of fruit on the table?\u201d \u201cYou see it?\u201d \u201cI do.\u201d \u201cHere\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen. I\u2019m going to make an apple appear in that bowl. And if I do, you\u2019re going to blow off your little rendezvous … \u201d And we shot this scene \u2014 I wanted to shoot the two scenes, Martys side and Kay\u2019s side at the same time. So we lit it, and they\u2019re actually conjoined by a door, these two hotel rooms. So they\u2019re talking to each other on period telephones in real time, so that I could capture their emotional points of view. The name of the cue you\u2019re hearing is called \u201cThe Apple,\u201d by Dan Lopatin, my composer. And the apple is again the ultimate sign of winning. And here she shows up as part of her deal. And that\u2019s the Viennese choir, about 30 voices, that Dan orchestrated in an effort to really have this kind of heavenly vibe. And it\u2019s nice because I can ground the scene in Kay\u2019s point of view, which is kind of a surrogate for the audience, which is seeing Marty in his full dream and his full stardom, and it\u2019s reminding her of a hustle she once chased. Darius Khondji, my cinematographer, and I tried to emulate, best we could, the glory and awe that we saw in the 1949 newsreel championships. \u201cLet\u2019s have a little fun with this one.\u201d \u201cO.K.\u201d \u201cHave a little fun, all right?\u201d \u201cGotcha.\u201d Timmy and Geza Rohrig, who plays Bela Kletzki, spent many hours with Diego Schaaf, the film\u2019s table tennis choreographer, who mined thousands of hours of footage in order to find the perfect points to emulate. Timmy played some of these exhibition style points and so did Geza, but the harder part was for them to time doing this with the C.G. ball. \u201cPoint, Kletzki.\u201d And there you see Kay, now intoxicated. There\u2019s the head of the I.A.T.T. who\u2019s livid. \u201cKletzki. starts, 6 to 20, Mauser leads two games to zero.\u201d \u201cMatch point again for Mr. Mauser.\u201d And this is one of my favorite moments of the film, right here, the way Bela sets him up like that. Pure showmanship. And Timmy\u2019s laugh, which is just an incredible piece of his performance and I think indicative of the way he\u2019s able to spike the film with these big feelings of emotion and joy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n