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City billionaire John Catsimatidis is making his big-screen debut in heartthrob Timothée Chalamet’s newest film, “Marty Supreme” — and, in true form, is making cash off griping about the high cost of things.

“I actually got paid! I’m a member of SAG. And so I got a new career at my age,” the 76-year-old supermarket mogul told The Post on Friday.


  New York City supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis is making his film debut in the upcoming Timothée Chalamet movie “Marty Supreme.” x/RealChalamet New York City supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis is making his film debut in the upcoming Timothée Chalamet movie “Marty Supreme.” x/RealChalamet

“Josh Safdie — who is the big producer on it — he was looking for Upper West Side people and approached me, and I said, ‘Yeah! Sounds like fun!’ ” the mogul said.

Catsimatidis — who is also famous these days for his WABC radio show, where he regularly complains about rising costs in the city — revealed he will star in “two or three scenes” of the new film about the life of a fictional table-tennis star, Marty Mauser.

The inspiration for the main character comes from the life of legend Marty Reisman, who ran a ping pong parlor in an Upper West Side building owned by Catsimatidis, and others who frequented the spot.

The onetime mayoral candidate also makes a cameo in the final seconds of the film’s trailer, which was released Wednesday, in a scene in which Chalamet tries to convince two men with New York accents to purchase a custom orange ping pong ball with his name branded on the surface.


  “I got a new career at my age,” Catsimatidis crowed to The Post. Aristide Economopoulos “I got a new career at my age,” Catsimatidis crowed to The Post. Aristide Economopoulos

  Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a fictionalized version of table tennis legend Marty Reisman. x/RealChalamet Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a fictionalized version of table tennis legend Marty Reisman. x/RealChalamet

“A custom ball like that, it’s going to cost a lot of money,” Catsimatidis tells the actor.

When it came to working with the Academy Award-nominated Chalamet, Catsimatidis admitted he had no idea who the heartthrob was.

“I never knew who he was! I was complaining to the director that he was getting a bigger role than me!” he quipped to The Post.

It wasn’t clear whether Chalamet, a fellow New Yorker and public-school graduate, knew who Catsimatidis was before filming.


  Catsimatidis admitted he didn’t know who Chalamet was. GC Images Catsimatidis admitted he didn’t know who Chalamet was. GC Images

Catsimatidis said his ping pong-peddling scene took as many as seven hours to shoot.

“I would say I’m used to days of work for five days,” Catsimatidis told The Post. “[Filming] was like 14-hour days. By the time I got [done], it was like midnight.”

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