Timothée Chalamet Cuddles with a Puppy in Candid Photos of His Personal Life

Timothée Chalamet is adding some puppy love to his Marty Supreme press tour.

In a new Instagram photo dump shared on Tuesday, Dec. 2, the Dune star, 29, posted a series of candid shots captioned, “puppy🥹 MARTY SUPREME CHRISTMAS DAY.” In one of the photos, he’s curled up on a couch in a black T-shirt, showing off his buzz cut while cradling a tiny brown puppy.

Chalamet didn’t reveal the dog’s name or breed, and it’s not clear whether the pup is his new pet or simply a furry friend he met while on the promo trail for his upcoming film.

Other photos in the carousel offer a peek into both the press tour and his downtime. In one, he’s dressed in festive Christmas pajamas; in another, he’s outside in a pink hat, white tank and sunglasses, taking a relaxed break from work.

A screenshot of a text exchange with his mother shows the actor promising to secure her a coveted Marty Supreme jacket ahead of the movie’s premiere.

Chalamet plays the title character in writer-director Josh Safdie’s upcoming film. According to the synopsis, the story centers on “a young man with a dream no one respects” — a dream to conquer the niche world of ping-pong. The character is loosely inspired by real-life Jewish American table tennis pioneer Marty Reisman, who died in 2012.

“In spirit, this is the most who I was that I’ve had to play a role,” the 29-year-old actor told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published in October. “This is who I was before I had a career.”

He also revealed that he’d been quietly training in ping-pong for years leading up to Marty Supreme, even while working on other major projects like playing Bob Dylan in the Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown in 2024.

“Everything I was working on, it was this secret: I had a table in London while I was making Wonka. On Dune 2, I had a table in Budapest, Jordan. I had a table in Abu Dhabi. I had a table at the Cannes Film Festival for The French Dispatch,” Chalamet told The Hollywood Reporter.

Marty Supreme arrives in theaters on Dec. 25.