{"id":329773,"date":"2026-03-14T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/329773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:16:09","slug":"steven-spielberg-on-timothee-chalamets-ballet-opera-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/329773\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg on Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s Ballet, Opera Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Steven Spielberg Weighs in on Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s Controversial Ballet and Opera Comments<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/steven_spielberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> is yelling \u201ccut\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/timothee_chalamet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>\u2019s recent comments.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks after the Marty Supreme star said that \u201cno one cares\u201d about ballet and opera, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/34577\/20-secrets-about-the-jurassic-park-franchise-revealed?query=jurassic%20park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Jurassic Park director<\/a> is the latest celeb to address his controversial take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the real experience comes when we can influence a community to congregate in a strange, dark space where all of us are strangers,\u201d Steven said of the importance of movie theaters during a SXSW keynote conversation Mar. 13, per <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/steven-spielberg-timothee-chalamet-ballet-1236687368\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>. \u201cAt the end of a really good movie experience, we are all united with a whole bunch of feelings that we walk into the daylight with, or into the nighttime with. And there\u2019s nothing like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happens in movies, and in concerts,\u201d the 79-year-old added. \u201cAnd it happens in ballet and opera, by the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the audience applauded his remark, Steven continued, \u201cAnd we want that to be sustained. We want that to go forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comments come after Timoth\u00e9e, 30, spoke about various art forms in an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/matthew_mcconaughey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a>\u00a0in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg Weighs in on Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s Controversial Ballet and Opera Comments Steven Spielberg is yelling \u201ccut\u201d on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-329773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329773","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=329773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}