Tyler, The Creator has been a paragon of creativity in his career, going from rapping and producing to designing clothes and creating TV shows. But nearly 15 years after his debut, there’s one arena he’d had yet to step into: acting in films.

That changes this Christmas, as Tyler makes his film acting debut alongside Timothée Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme , which is VERY loosely based on table tennis icon Marty Reisman. A24 dropped the trailer for the film today, giving us our first glimpse of the film’s cast and plot set to Alphaville’s “Forever Young,” as well as Tyler (billed here by his real name, Tyler Okonma) in his first major role.

The film is described as a sports adventure comedy-drama, following Chalamet’s Marty Mauser as he works to become a star table tennis

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