In Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet plays a true hustler. The character is one of the world’s greatest table tennis players, and he is willing to do just about anything to prove it – and that means lying, cheating, and scamming all so that he can get the opportunities he needs. It makes watching the character’s story one hell of a cinematic experience… but I love that the same level of commitment was found on the set of the movie as well, as the actor went way above and beyond shooting one extremely memorable scene.
Without giving too much away plot-wise, there is a part in the film in which Chalamet’s Marty Mauser submits to having his bare rear end spanked with a ping pong paddle in order to get transportation to an upcoming tournament, and while the production was set up with a butt double for the star and a prop spanking instrument, neither ended up being used, and what we see in Marty Supreme is in every way the real deal.
