"I had a table in London while I was making ' Wonka.' On ' Dune: Part Two,' I had a table in Budapest [and] Jordan. I had a table in Abu Dhabi. I had a table at the Cannes Film Festival for ' The French Dispatch.' "
"If anyone thinks this is cap, as the kids say - if anyone thinks this is made up - this is all documented, and it'll be put out,"
"These were the two spoiled projects where I got years to work on them. This is the truth. I was working on both these things concurrently."
"He was singularly dedicated to getting this to be the same quality as the rest of the movie,"
Timothée Chalamet prepared for his role in Marty Supreme by training intensively in table tennis and travelling with a table during multiple film productions. Director Josh Safdie hired coaches Diego Schaaf and former U.S. Olympian Wei Wang to elevate Chalamet's skills and act as technical advisors. Chalamet practiced through the pandemic, setting up tables in apartments and on location worldwide to emulate a world champion’s play. He worked on table tennis concurrently with other demanding role preparations and chose not to use a stunt double for the film’s table-tennis scenes.
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