"Timothée Chalamet declined to half-ass his Marty Supreme performance, and when it came time to film a ping pong paddle spanking scene, he refused to let a stunt double butt-in on his role. Chalamet plays a table tennis prodigy who gets embroiled with a retired actress (Gwyneth Paltrow), and her humiliated entrepreneur husband ( Shark Tank shark Kevin O'Leary, making his cinematic debut)."
""When it came time to whack him, there was a stunt ass. There was a double," O'Leary said. "[Chalamet] wouldn't do it. He said he'll do it himself. He didn't want some other ass immortalized." O'Leary noted that a softer, prop paddle broke on the first attempt, necessitating the use of the real thing. "Josh [Safdie] was saying, 'You've got to wind up harder,'" O'Leary recalled. "I was really whacking him.""
Timothée Chalamet insisted on performing his own ping-pong paddle spanking scene in Marty Supreme, refusing a stunt double. He portrays a table tennis prodigy entangled with a retired actress (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her humiliated entrepreneur husband, played by Kevin O'Leary in his cinematic debut. Kevin O'Leary said he spanked Chalamet "for hours" while director Josh Safdie filmed about 40 takes until four in the morning. A softer prop paddle broke on the first attempt, requiring the use of a real paddle. Chalamet declined a double to prevent another person's body from being captured. The repeated takes produced physical intensity and late-night filming. Marty Supreme is in theaters now.
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