Timothée Chalamet Promotes Movie from Atop Las Vegas Sphere

Timothée Chalamet took movie promoting to a new height on Monday, when he appeared atop the Las Vegas Sphere to film a video advertising his latest theatrical release.

“Marty Supreme,” coming out Christmas Day, stars the “A Complete Unknown” actor as a young man whose dream of becoming a champion ping‑pong player earns him little respect.

In the promo clip, posted to Chalomet’s Instagram, the camera starts in on a close‑up of the two‑time Oscar nominee. As it pulls back, we see that it’s a drone camera and he’s strapped into a small platform bolted to the apex of the 366‑foot‑tall spherical venue.

The Chicago Bulls theme blares as Chalamet hoots and hollers and the camera keeps zooming out — eventually revealing the Sphere’s LED skin replicating a massive orange ping‑pong ball. Chalamet finishes by yelling the movie’s tagline: “Dream big!”

Check it out yourself…

He’s Not the First, Though

The press release announcing the stunt called Chalamet the “first person to appear atop Sphere in Las Vegas,” a phrase dutifully regurgitated by People, Billboard, and Entertainment Weekly.

But regular Casino.org readers know that’s not accurate. And we’re not even referring to the hundreds of people who had to stand atop the Sphere to build the damn thing.

This fall, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and a small science team stood atop the Sphere to install and inspect a scientific observatory designed to detect and track UFOs. And they didn’t need no stinking platforms.

By the way, it’s relatively easy to access the top of the Sphere — at least if you’re invited to.

A hatch leads workers there via internal catwalks and a ladder, so they can perform maintenance on the LED units and tidy up whatever blows or gets dropped up there by birds.

And then there was Maison DesChamps, who made it to the top the most difficult and illegal way possible — via a free-climb on February 7, 2024. It was part of a publicity stunt the daredevil timed to coincide with the first Las Vegas Super Bowl. (DesChamps is an anti-abortion activist who calls himself the “Pro-Life Spiderman.”)

DesChamps was immediately arrested, along with three others who accompanied him and filmed his climb. At  the time, he faced two criminal charges (destroying property and conspiracy to destroy property) and a $100,000 damage claim.