Timothée Chalamet refuses to act as stunt double for paddling scene in ‘Marty Supreme’

Timothée Chalamet gave his all to Marty Supreme.

In a Dec. 15 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Chalamet’s co-star in the film, Kevin O’Leary (of “Shark Tank” fame), admitted that Chalamet, 29, himself hit his butt with a paddle several times in a shocking sequence in which O’Leary himself physically punished him.

“That’s really Chalamet’s ass. He didn’t want a stuntman,” O’Leary, 71, told the magazine. “I said, ‘Timmy, I’m going to put a belt around your butt, but are you sure you want to do that?'”

“He immortalized his butt in the movie for the rest of his time. That scene still amazes me,” said the businessman, who is making his acting debut in “Marty Supreme.”

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In Marty Supreme, Chalamet plays a man named Marty Moser, a professional table tennis player who dreams of winning the 1952 World Championship.

Most of the story revolves around Marty’s efforts to earn enough money to travel to Japan and compete in a tournament there. In the process, he antagonizes O’Leary’s Milton Rockwell. Milton Rockwell is a businessman who became interested in table tennis after meeting Marty.

The scene in question depicts Rockwell rowing Marty as part of a deal for Rockwell to take Marty to Japan to compete in an exhibition match. This paddling was done as revenge for Marty’s repeated insults to businessmen in the film.

THR reported that O’Leary himself told Marty Supreme’s director Josh Safdie after filming that he thought the scene was “pretty crazy,” but also claimed that if he and anyone else were in the same situation as Rockwell and Marty, he “would be worse off than this.”

“I have no idea what the rules of acting are. I really don’t. I don’t judge. I’m not going to take acting lessons,” O’Leary told THR about his acting debut. “I felt like I was Milton Rockwell. If I were in 1952, that would be me.”

“Marty Supreme” is currently in theaters.