Chalamet is enjoying the perspective looking back at the city. For him, It’s like looking back on himself. Chalamet has been in at least 27 movies like, Call Me by Your Name, A Complete Unknown, Wonka, Dune, Interstellar, The King and Marty Supreme, his latest movie.

“Now in my late 20s, there should be every reason to go, all right, career’s good let me start shilling out,” says Chalamet, who turns 30 just after Christmas. “But It’s like I’m on the original pursuit of my life. I’ve gotten out of the pool and removed from a higher board.

That high dive is “ Marty Supreme” Josh Safdie’s hyperkinetic 1950s-set New York tale of a singular striver. Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, a Jewish kid working at a shoe store who aspires to be the best table tennis pro in the  world. The character is loosely based on a real-life player, Marty Reisman, but the movie is just as much a reflection of Chalamet and Safdie’s own whatever-it-takes ambitions.