"[Director] Josh [Safdie] wanted me to tap into, you know, he was always talking about, like, I modded controllers on YouTube growing up,"
"He's like that part of you. He's like the hustler part of you. The swaggerful part of you."
"I had a YouTube channel people found. It's YouTube dot com back-slash 'ModdedController360.' And I used to paint-mod controllers, I did three, and I spray-painted them and...opened them up, and I would charge peop"
Timothée Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a scrappy young aspiring table tennis pro who overcomes naysayers to pursue a career in the sport. Marty Supreme opens in theaters on Christmas. Director and co-writer Josh Safdie encouraged Chalamet to draw on his past modding and YouTube experience to access the character's hustler swagger. Chalamet ran a small 2010 YouTube channel called ModdedController360 where he painted and customized Xbox 360 controllers. Some saved videos show his work, including a controller with a "sexy" red tiger paint job. The film’s character is loosely based on a real table tennis pro.
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