Key Insights
- On-Set Experience: Timothée Chalamet shared an awkward moment while filming.
- Background Actors: He found working with non-actors both thrilling and challenging.
- Multiple Takes: The actor noted that it often took several attempts to evoke emotions from them.
- Director Communication: Chalamet had to inform the director about the background actor’s lack of anger.
Timothée Chalamet isn’t letting this on-set experience be a complete unknown.
Indeed, the actor revealed an awkward encounter while filming Marty Supreme when he tried to agitate a background actor into a heated argument for a scene.
“I won’t say who, but in that motel sequence, there are a lot of non-actors that I find it really thrilling to work with,” Timothée explained during a Jan. 14 Q&A alongside Robert Downey Jr. at the DGA Theater in New York City, per People, “but sometimes it would take multiple takes to really get something out of them.”
“I’m really getting in the guy’s face and I’m really trying to get him angry with me,” he continued, noting that he eventually had to tell the film’s director Josh Safdie that the background actor was “not getting angry with me, he’s not getting angry with me.”
The 30-year-old—who won Best Actor at the 2026 Critics Choice and Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy at the 2026 Golden Globes—eventually pulled something fiery out of the actor.
