If anyone's in the midst of penning another pickleball movie, crafting a role specifically with actor Timothée Chalamet in mind is a good idea.

On Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter published an article detailing the years of intense table tennis training Chalamet undertook to prepare for his role as American champion, Marty Reisman, in the upcoming sports comedy-drama film, Marty Supreme, which just screened at the New York Film Festival.

If Chalamet is willing to hit the court and drill with that kind of consistency and ferocity over and over again, he would be a perfect candidate to portray a professional pickleball athlete on the big screen someday.

Those table tennis skills would definitely come in handy on the 20x44. 

Just ask Ben Johns.

"Table tennis is a great background sport. Like most players we see right now are tennis players, but table tennis has a lot of interesting background attributes like stroke, swing path, reflexes, spin recognition," said Johns, via his official YouTube channel. "There's definitely a lot."

With that in mind, what did Chalamet's training entail?

"In 2018, Chalamet started taking ping-pong lessons at a 24-hour facility in Lower Manhattan," revealed David Canfield, a senior entertainment writer with the publication. "During COVID, he got rid of his living-room furniture at his Tribeca home and replaced it with a full table-tennis setup."

Even though Chalamet was juggling multiple film projects after the pandemic lockdowns were lifted, he continued to hone his ping-pong skills along the way.

"Everything I was working on, it was this secret: I had a table in London while I was making Wonka. On Dune 2, I had a table in Budapest, Jordan. I had a table in Abu Dhabi," he told Canfield. "I had a table at the Cannes Film Festival for The French Dispatch. I got myself an Airbnb in a town [around] Saint-Tropez afterThe French Dispatch, overlooking the water, and I was taking lessons there."

Chalamet's prep work didn't even miss a beat while mastering the intricacies of Bob Dylan to play the legendary musician in A Complete Unknown.

"If anyone thinks this is cap, as the kids say — if anyone thinks this is made up — this is all documented, and it’ll be put out,” he mentioned. "These were the two spoiled projects where I got years to work on them. This is the truth. I was working on both these things concurrently."

If table tennis sounds like a good addition to your pickleball training regimen, give it a try.

Johns clearly endorses it.

"It has a lot of advantages that come naturally when you transition to pickleball. There's certainly different levels of table tennis. At a high level, I would say definitely use your transition of backhand drives from below the table and forehand loops. Both of those are really helpful for knowing how to hit a roll volley in pickleball. For maybe lower level players, I'd say a lot of us learn to use too much wrist in table tennis, and they try to transfer that to pickleball. It doesn't work very well. Whereas at a higher level of table tennis, they kind of know how to use their wrist sparingly and effectively," he explained. "It's more similar to that in pickleball than it is to what some levels of ping-pong are, which is just using a lot of wrist, which you don't really want to do in pickleball. I'd say really knowing how to hit good roll volleys is a very clear advantage that you want to transfer from table tennis to pickleball."

Marty Supreme, which also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Fran Drescher, Kevin O'Leary, and Tyler, the Creator, hits theaters on Christmas Day.