'Marty Supreme' Director Dishes On Timothée Chalamet's 'Butt Double' Demand

Filmmaker Josh Safdie said his star was adamant about how one of the movie's wildest scenes would go down.

“Marty Supreme” director Josh Safdie shed light on star Timothée Chalamet’s decision to get violently spanked on his bare behind for one of the film’s most outrageous moments.

At the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Tuesday night, Safdie told The Associated Press that he “never got the sense” Chalamet “didn’t want to be spanked” during their extensive conversations about the script.

Even so, the “Uncut Gems” director thought it made sense to have a “butt double” on hand for the scene, where Chalamet’s audacious Ping-Pong prodigy Marty Mauser agrees to be humiliated in exchange for a final swing at his table tennis dreams.

But when it was time to roll, the “Dune” actor was baffled to see a stand-in, purportedly asking Safdie, “What is this guy doing here? It’s my butt.”

Though the filmmaker yielded, he told AP he had Chalamet’s on-screen assailant, “Shark Tank” mogul Kevin O’Leary, rehearse with some whacks at Safdie’s own rear end so his leading man could take as few beatings as possible.