Timothée Chalamet Sparks Debate With Cringey Comment On Ballet And Opera

The "Marty Supreme" actor spoke candidly about a number of hot-button topics in Hollywood in a recent interview with co-star Matthew McConaughey.

Timothée Chalamet may be one of Hollywood’s most sought-after young actors, but his recent thoughts on other realms of the performing arts aren’t likely to win him new fans.

Last week, Chalamet dropped by the University of Texas at Austin to be interviewed by his “Interstellar” co-star, Matthew McConaughey, for a Variety & CNN town hall.

Over the course of the chat, the pair spoke candidly about a number of hot-button topics in the film industry. When the discussion turned to movie studios’ push to get “their biggest action set pieces up front” in order to compete with audiences’ shrinking attention spans, Chalamet offered an eyebrow-raising take.

“Some people do want to be entertained and quickly,” he said, after referring to Netflix’s “Frankenstein” as a slower-paced film that was successful. “I admire people, and I’ve done it myself, who go on a talk show and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got to keep movie theaters alive, we’ve gotta keep this genre alive,’ and another part of me feels like if people want to see it ― like ‘Barbie,’ like ‘Oppenheimer’ ― they’re going to go see it.”

“I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore.’ All respect to all the ballet and opera people out there,” he continued.