Kevin O’Leary, star of “Shark Tank,” makes his screen debut with Timothée Chalamet in A24’s “Marty Supreme.” One of his most memorable moments is when he uses a ping pong paddle to whip the actor. O’Leary portrays Milton Rockwell, a prosperous pen manufacturer who is married to elderly actress Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow), in the sports romp directed by Josh Safdie.
Marty Mauser, Chalamet’s prospective ping-pong champion, learns that Milton might be his ticket to the global championship in Tokyo once he gets involved with Kay, but it comes at a terrible cost. Chalamet had the choice to skip the sequence, according to O’Leary in an interview with Variety, but the actor requested that the movie show his actual butt.
“When it came time to whack him, there was a stunt ass. There was a double,” O’Leary stated, “Chalamet wouldn’t do it. He said he’ll do it himself. He didn’t want some other ass immortalized.” “Josh was saying, ‘You’ve got to wind up harder,’” O’Leary added. “I was really whacking him.”
The spanking scenario, which O’Leary describes as “a pivotal scene of humiliation” for Marty, was required for the arrogant table tennis hustler because “he had pissed me off so much and insulted me so many times that capital punishment was correct.” O’Leary remarks on the main character, “I never felt satisfied that he suffered enough for what he did. Even now, I’m still pissed.”
With $17.4 million at the box office, “Marty Supreme,” which debuted on December 25, swiftly became A24’s second-largest debut weekend to date.
