{"id":318660,"date":"2026-03-08T04:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:29:07","slug":"ballet-opera-companies-slam-timothee-chalamet-over-no-one-cares-quip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318660\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballet, Opera Companies Slam Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Over ‘No One Cares’ Quip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBallet and opera<\/a> companies around the world have called out Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet following the actor\u2019s less-than-complimentary remarks about the art forms in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn February, Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey sat down for an Austin, Texas town hall event produced by\u00a0Variety\u00a0and CNN<\/a>, where the two actors talked about their craft. While discussing their audience\u2019s shortened attention spans, Chalamet said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be working in ballet or opera. Things where it\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChalamet quickly realized how his comment could be considered disparaging and added, \u201cAll respect to the ballet and opera people out there. Damn, I just took shots for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough the town hall event was broadcast in February, Chalamet\u2019s comments resurfaced on a global scale this week as many of the world\u2019s top opera and ballet companies responded to the actor\u2019s remarks this week.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Los Angeles Opera wrote on social media, \u201cSorry, @tchalamet. We\u2019d offer you complimentary tickets to Akhnaten, but it\u2019s selling out. There are a few seats left to purchase if you hurry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLondon\u2019s Royal Ballet and Opera said on social media, \u201cEvery night at the Royal Opera House, thousands of people gather for ballet and opera. For the music. For the storytelling. For the sheer magic of live performance. If you\u2019d like to reconsider,\u00a0@tchalamet, our doors are open.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNew York City Ballet dancer Megan Fairchild added in a video posted on Instagram, \u201cTimmy, I didn\u2019t realize you were a world class dancer or opera singer, who simply chose not to pursue it because acting is more popular. Ballet and opera aren\u2019t niche hobbies people opt out of for fame.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFairchild continued, \u201cGood luck in the Oscar race. Artists supporting artists matters. None of these paths are easy, and there\u2019s no need to put ballet or opera down along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Pointe Magazine points out, Chalamet\u2019s remarks came despite his own family\u2019s history in the art form: Chalamet\u2019s mother Nicole Flender studied at the School of American Ballet and attended Yale on a dance scholarship, and later taught dance in the New York public school system. Chalamet himself was also recently photographed wearing a New York City Ballet hat.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Seattle Opera cleverly incentivized Chalamet\u2019s comments with the promo code \u201cTimothee\u201d: <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Metropolitan Opera wrote on social media in a post that tagged Chalamet, \u201cAll respect to the opera (and ballet) people out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballet and opera companies around the world have called out Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet following the actor\u2019s less-than-complimentary remarks about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,44525,45005],"class_list":["post-318660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opera","tag-timothee-chalamet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}