Film sets are usually extremely regulated and organized places, but sometimes wild interactions can still occur, and “Marty Supreme” actor Timothée Chalamet is sharing some behind-the-scenes drama that happened between himself and a background actor, leading that person to threaten him after a scene got a little too intense, as in-character Chalamet was trying to provoke an angry reaction and that person wasn’t having it.
During a chat with People Magazine, the assumed Best Actor Oscar contender revealed that an unnamed background actor from the motel sequence in the film threatened him and made him aware that he was an ex-con (alluding to being familiar with violence), putting the cherry on top of that on-set warning to Chalamet after their tense exchange filming a motel scene.
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“I won’t say who, but in that motel sequence, there are a lot of non-actors…I find it really thrilling to work with [them], but sometimes it would take multiple takes to really get something out of them. And I’m really getting in the guy’s face, and I’m really trying to get him angry with me. I was saying to Josh [Safdie], ‘He’s not getting angry with me, he’s not getting angry with me.’ I did another take, and then the guy said, ‘I was just in jail for 30 years. You really don’t want to f*** with me. You don’t want to see me angry.’ I said to Josh, ‘Holy shit, who do you have me opposite, man?'”
We have to be extremely thankful it was simply an exchange of words and not fists, rather than anything more serious, but that comes with the territory of working with non-actors and perhaps triggering unexpected reactions that may or may not be emotional in nature in response to an in-character sequence.
This comes after we learned that not only did Kevin O’Leary have to paddle Chalamet’s butt a multitude of times to get the best take for the movie (Chalamet refusing a butt double for the shot), but director Josh Safdie had to remind the reality TV host as bluntly as possible that he decides when the scene is over, as the person running the production, not the actors (after O’Learly was getting frustated and tried to end the scene himself).
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