Timothée Chalamet was dead-set on immortalising his backside in A24’s Marty Supreme after refusing to use a butt-double for its already-infamous spanking scene. During the Josh Safdie-directed movie, young table-tennis champion Marty Mauser, played by Chalamet, tries to achieve his table tennis dreams by accepting entrepreneur Milton Rockwell’s offer to play in the upcoming World Championsips. Speaking to Variety, Canadian actor and businessman, Kevin O’Leary, who plays the paddle-wielding Rockwell, recalled Chalamat being asked if he wanted to use a butt-double for the scene. “When it came time to whack him, there was a stunt ass. There was a double,” O’Leary said. “[Chalamet] wouldn’t do it. He said he’ll do it himself. He didn’t want some other ass immortalised.” Chalamet’s cheeks were so rock-solid that a fake paddle prop, designed to soften the blows, broke on the first hit, meaning a real paddle had to be used instead. “Josh was saying, ‘You’ve got to wind up harder,’ … I wa...