Intensive ping-pong training that Timothée Chalamet underwent in preparation for filming Marty Supreme borders on obsession, the 29-year-old actor admitted.
So much so that the actor has installed ping pong tables in all the places he has visited in recent years, including various film sets around the world.
“I had a table in London during the filming of the film. Wonka. During filming Dune 2I had a table in Budapest, Jordan. I had a table in Abu Dhabi. I had a table at the Cannes Film Festival for French control room. After French control room“I found myself an Airbnb in a town near Saint-Tropez, overlooking the sea, and I trained,” he said recently. Hollywood Reporter.
Timothée Chalamet began playing table tennis in 2018 in preparation for the role of Marty Mauser, inspired by sports legend and two-time US Open champion Marty Raisman.
“I was working on Perfect Stranger etc. Marty Supreme for many years at the same time,” he recalled Hollywood Reporteradding that he eventually abandoned his studies to devote himself entirely to ping pong.
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“Some people are lucky enough to succeed by accident or take a passive position in achieving their goals. This was not my case. It took me 10,000 hours of work. I had to give up my studies at university. We had to take risks. I had to embark on projects that were off the beaten track at first. At the time, the choices I made at 20 were quite radical,” he also admitted, according to reports. Vanity FairWednesday.
Feature film Marty Supremewhich will be released in Quebec on Christmas Day, also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler, the Creator and Fran Drescher. Set in 1950s New York, the story follows young Marty Mauser, driven by extreme ambition, willing to do anything to achieve his dream and prove to the world that nothing is impossible for him.
