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While the west is abuzz with Oscar talk, Hollywood star Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet has been winning over fans in China for a very different reason: he\u2019s been selling tofu at a street stand in Chengdu\u2026  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep. Tofu. The stunt was part of a promotional tour for his new film Marty Supreme <\/em>in which he plays an ambitious table tennis player chasing championship glory<\/strong>. It\u2019s already picked up nine Oscar nominations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of sticking to premieres and press junkets, Chalamet spent much of the trip checking out the local culture. His tour kicked off in Chengdu where he wandered the streets in a jacket bearing the movie\u2019s Chinese title, sampled hotpot and drank tea the traditional way.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a stall selling fermented tofu (\u9709\u8c46\u8150) \u2013 a southern Chinese delicacy \u2013 Chalamet jokingly shouted the famous vendor lines in Chinese and used a table-tennis paddle to slice the tofu,<\/strong> sending Chinese social media into fits of laughter and the hashtag #\u751c\u8336\u5356\u9709\u8c46\u8150# (Sweet Tea [a Chinese nickname for Chalamet] sells fermented tofu) hurtling into Weibo\u2019s hot search list.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actor also joined locals for a game of table tennis in a park \u2013 a game, which by his own admission, didn\u2019t go to plan. In a country where ping-pong is serious business, Chalamet didn\u2019t fare well. Even elderly players got the better of him.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The trip continued in Beijing, where Chalamet bought a poster of Olympic table-tennis star Sun Yingsha and praised her as an \u2018amazing champion.\u2019 He also played a friendly match with world champion Ma Long, who later gifted him a signed paddle<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet in China: Why it worked<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The charm of the tour lies in its informality: a Hollywood star happily eating street food, mispronouncing Chinese and losing at ping-pong. The photo-ops, red carpets, and autograph signing were relegated to second position. What fans took from the stunts was a promotion that looked less like your well-groomed Hollywood movie<\/a> push and more like a charming cultural crash landing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the west is abuzz with Oscar talk, Hollywood star Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet has been winning over fans in China for a very different reason: he\u2019s been selling tofu at a street stand in Chengdu\u2026   Yep. Tofu. The stunt was part of a promotional tour for his new film Marty Supreme in which he plays an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[64,62],"class_list":["post-49813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-industries-entertainment","tag-news-marketing-branding","has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTimoth\u00e9e Chalamet has gone viral in China for selling tofu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet has gone viral in China for selling tofu in Chengdu while promoting his new film Marty Supreme.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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