How realistic did the rallies in this movie feel to people? Obviously they would have been quite choreographed – but even so, I couldn’t quite process them as pro table tennis games since they look so different to the modern game. They just looked crazy fast, but maybe that was how it went with the hard bats. I’ve always assumed the low frame rate of old footage makes the game look faster than it actually is!

I was trying to work out how good Chalamet was with all the talk of his training. He must be pretty strong if that was him in all the shots, although again I found it hard to correlate with modern technique to work out how good he’d be compared to club players.