Timothée Chalamet Says a ‘Marty Supreme’ Background Actor Threatened Him on Set: ‘You Don’t Want to F— With Me. You Don’t Want to See Me Angry’

Timothée Chalamet revealed during a recent Q&A with Robert Downey Jr. at New York’s DGA Theater that he was threatened by a background actor while filming a scene for Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme.”

“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, but sometimes it would take multiple takes to really get something out of them,” Chalamet said (per People). “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, ‘He’s not getting angry with me, he’s not getting angry with me.'”

Although the Oscar-nominated actor assumed he wasn’t getting a rise out of the unnamed extra, he was mistaken.

“I did another take, and then the guy said, ‘I was just in jail for 30 years. You really don’t want to fuck with me. You don’t want to see me angry,'” Chalamet said with a nervous laugh. “I said to Josh, ‘Holy shit, who do you have me opposite, man?’”

Chalamet stars in Safdie’s sports dramedy as Marty Mauser, who chases his dream of becoming a table-tennis champion. “Marty Supreme” is a fictionalized account of the real-life Marty Reisman, who won five world championship medals in table tennis.

Chalamet is an Oscar frontrunner for his performance in “Marty Supreme,” which has already scored him honors from the Critics’ Choice Awards and Golden Globes. He has also received an Actor Award nomination from SAG.

In his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, Chalamet said, “My dad instilled in me a spirit of gratitude growing up. ‘Always be grateful for what you have.’ It’s allowed me to leave the ceremony in the past empty handed with my head held high, grateful just to be here. But I’d be lying if I said those moments didn’t make this moment that much sweeter.”