Timothée Chalametadmits he might have gone too far when pushing a background actor on the set of "Marty Supreme."
While filming the table tennis movie, the "A Complete Unknown" star said he tried to get a non-actor to convey anger for a take. "I won't say who, but in that motel sequence, there are a lot of non-actors… that I find it really thrilling to work with, but sometimes it would take multiple takes to really get something out of them," Chalamet toldRobert Downey Jr.during a Jan. 14 Q&A in Los Angeles.
"And I'm really getting in the guy's face, and I'm really trying to get him angry with me."
He recounted venting to directorJosh Safdie, saying, "He's not getting angry with me, he's not getting angry with me."
To Chalamet's surprise, his efforts promoted legitimate hostility off camera.
"I did another take, and then the guy said, 'I was just in jail for 30 years. You really don't want to (expletive) with me. You don't want to see me angry," Chalamet said. "I said to Josh, 'Holy (expletive), who do you have me opposite, man?'"
Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner coordinated matching, bright orange looks for the Los Angeles premiere of his new A24 movie "Marty Supreme."See the pair pictured at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Dec. 8, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California. The couple wore Chrome Hearts for their second red carpet appearance." style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" />
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Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner coordinated matching, bright orange looks for the Los Angeles premiere of his new A24 movie "Marty Supreme."See the pair pictured at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Dec. 8, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California. The couple wore Chrome Hearts for their second red carpet appearance.
Robert Pattinson had a secret role in 'Marty Supreme'
Safdie revealed on Jan. 13 that "The Batman" starRobert Pattinsonhad a low-key role early in the sports drama that largely went unnoticed,Varietyreported.
"No one knows this, but that voice – the commentator, the umpire – is Pattinson," the director said in a conversation at the BFI Southbank in London. "It's like a little Easter egg. Nobody knows about that."
Pattinson voiced the announcer during the sequence in which Chalamet's Marty Mauser competes in the British Open semifinals, Safdie said.
Safdie and Pattinson previously worked on the 2017 crime thrillerGood Time."
Contributing: Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY
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