Oscar contender Josh Safdie told Oscarwinner Sean (Anora) Baker during recent episode of  A24 Podcast that early draft of Marty Supreme took Timotheé Chalamet’s titular ping-pong star all the way through the late ‘80s, where he becomes a successful business owner.

However, in the film’s final moment, Milton Rockwell, played by Kevin O’Leary, would take “a bite out of his neck,” paying off Rockwell’s “I’m a vampire” line earlier in the third act.

Safdie then dropped the punchline, “You’re on his eyes, we built the prosthetics for Timmy and everything, and Mr. Wonderful shows up behind him and takes a bite out of his neck, and that was the last image. And he hasn’t aged.”

Safdie recalled that when A24 read the ending, studio execs asked him, “’This is a mistake, right?’”

O’Leary said that he was all for the vampiric payoff, sharing that Safdie “went as far as to make digital teeth. I know that sounds nuts, but to me that would be the right punishment.”

O’Leary suggested Odessa A’Zion’s Rachel had to “die in childbirth” at the end as punishment for Marty Mauser’s selfishness. Safdie allegedly considered the change but ultimately deemed it too “sick.”