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Oscar nominee Chalamet woos Chinese fans days before Best Actor bid
Timothée Chalamet promotes Oscar hopeful Marty Supreme by engaging fans and celebrating table tennis, as China’s box office reached $7.5 billion last year.
- On Tuesday in Beijing, Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet promoted Best Picture hopeful 'Marty Supreme', which opens in Chinese cinemas on March 20 ahead of the Academy Awards.
- Studios are staging rare actor visits like Chalamet's as China recorded 51.8 billion yuan in ticket sales last year, challenging North America's box office.
- In Chengdu he was filmed playing table tennis with silver-haired locals, illustrating his role as 1950s champion 'Marty Supreme' and praising Sun Yingsha while buying her poster.
- Fan enthusiasm coexists with recent backlash after viral comments about ballet and opera, as dozens of fans squeezed past each other for autographs and affectionately called Timothée Chalamet tiancha on Tuesday.
- The tour positions 'Marty Supreme' to boost box office prospects and influence Chalamet's image, as he told reporters 'I feel like the movie could be as well received here as it was in the States, you know. Hopefully'.
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Oscar nominee Chalamet woos Chinese fans days before Best Actor bid
Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet answered to "sweet tea" and praised a table tennis champion as he wooed Chinese fans on Tuesday in Beijing, days before the Academy Awards.
·Missoula, United States
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