Timothée Chalamethas discussed the experience of being on setthe ping pong movie, Marty Supreme, including an incident he encountered with one of the extra performers.
The Dune actorwas addressing a Q & A event on Wednesday alongside Robert Downey Jr., during which he shared a memory about a time when he struggled to get a background actor to display anger towards his character.
“I won’t reveal who, but during that motel scene, there were many non-actors… I find it very exciting to collaborate with them, although sometimes it required several attempts to extract the desired performance,” Chalamet remembered.
I’m really confronting the guy and trying hard to make him angry. I told Josh [Safdie, the film’s director], he isn’t getting angry at me, he isn’t getting angry at me.
Nevertheless, on a different attempt, the extra in the background chose to inform Chalamet about desiring to witness him becoming angry.
I did another take, and then the guy said, ‘I was recently released from jail after 30 years. You really don’t want to mess with me. You don’t want to see me angry,’ the Little Women actor said.
Chalamet’s tale ended with him stating, “I told Josh, ‘Holy wow, who have you got me paired with, buddy?'”
The performer’s story about his experience on set was shared one day following the director’sMarty Supreme revealed Robert Pattinson had a hidden role in the sports drama.
Speaking on Tuesday at London’s BFI Southbank, Safdie shared, according toVariety, that the TwilightA star is, in fact, the voice of the unseen announcer during the British Open table tennis semifinals featuring Marty Mauser (Chalamet) and Hungarian champion Bela Kletzki (Géza Röhrig) at the start of the film.
“No one is aware of it, but that voice — the commentator, the umpire — belongs to Pattinson,” theUncut Gemsfilmmaker said, “It’s like a small hidden treasure. No one is aware of it. … He came by and watched some things, and I said, I don’t know any people from Britain. So he’s the referee.”
Pattinson, aged 39, had previously worked with Safdie on the 2017 crime thriller Good Time, which the director co-directed with his brother, Benny. The highly praised film revolved around Pattinson’s character, Connie, a criminal who takes drastic measures to rescue his developmentally disabled brother (portrayed by Benny) from prison.
Earlier this week, Chalamet won the Golden Globe forMarty Supreme, opening the door to a possible Oscar win.Chalamet is expected to receive a Best Actor nomination at this year’s Academy Awards for his role. If he is acknowledged, it would mark the 29-year-old’s third nomination.
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