9 actors who learned real skills for roles: Cillian Murphy, Kate Winslet, Jenna Ortega and more

While working on ‘Wonka’, ‘Dune 2’, and even while attending the Cannes Film Festival, Timothée Chalamet had a table tennis table set up wherever he went. He told The Hollywood Reporter in October 2025 that it was a years-long secret training operation leading up to ‘Marty Supreme’. His instructor Diego Schaaf told the same outlet that Chalamet never settled for getting something right once, always asking to run it again. “He memorised every point, every movement, every shot,” Schaaf said. No doubles were used for any of the ping-pong scenes.

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