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.