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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T18:51:59.000Z",
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    "Marty supreme",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nYou probably don't expect an Oscar campaign to get derailed by ballet.\n\nAnd yet...\n\nIn a clip from a Variety conversation with Matthew McConaughey, Timothée Chalamet said he'd hate to be in the position of hyping a dying art form—then, for some reason, brought up ballet and opera. \"Hey! Keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.\"\n\nThe Feb. 24 comments have gained traction online and garnered the ire of dancers, singers, the Met, opera houses, ballet companies, and theater fans, who are posting their own viral videos in response.\n\nYou can watch the discussion below.\n\n- YouTube www.youtube.com\n\n\"It does take you having to wave a flag of, 'Hey, this is a serious movie,' or something, and some people do want to be entertained and quickly,\" the Oscar-nominated actor said. \"I'm really right in the middle, Matthew. 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 and go out of their way to be loud and proud about it.\n\n\"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.\"\n\nThe crowd laughed, and Chalamet did too.\n\nChalamet added, \"I just lost 14 cents in viewership. I just took shots for no reason.\"\n\nPer The Hollywood Reporter, the Royal Ballet and Opera pushed back with a statement emphasizing centuries of cross-disciplinary influence on theater, film, fashion, and contemporary music.\n\nAmerican opera singer Isabel Leonard called the remarks \"ineloquent and narrow-minded,\" adding that dismissing fellow artists says more about Chalamet's character than anything else he said in the interview.\n\n> @jennifergruener\n>\n> Phantom of the opera's reaction to Timmy's thoughts on ballet and opera #phantomoftheopera #ballet #opera @Liv Mitchell @Jordan Lee @Midori Marsh @chandlercreekfarm @David Young Fernandez @Dennis Shuman @Alexandria Shiner @Melo💖\n\nNew York's Metropolitan Opera posted a compilation video on TikTok captioned, \"This one’s for you, Timothée Chalamet… 👀\"\n\nChalamet is smack in the middle of an Oscar campaign for _Marty Supreme_ that, according to THR, has been losing steam heading into the March 15 ceremony. So, at the exact moment you need people to champion you and your work, you took a swing at entire artistic communities. And those communities have fans, too.\n\nIrish opera singer Seán Tester responded on Facebook, writing, \"To call these art forms irrelevant says far less about the art itself than it does about how little time someone has spent truly experiencing it.”\n\nCinema didn't emerge from a vacuum. It has always drawn from every other art form that came before it, whether it's painting, theater, music, or dance.\n\nWe've written about this a lot at NFS. Famous paintings have shaped how our greatest directors frame shots. A day at the art museum can unlock creative thinking you didn't know you needed. Even Picasso's philosophy has applications for how we approach our craft.\n\nPutting other art forms down to make your own feel more relevant is not the way to go. Creatively, practically, and (as Chalamet is probably learning) publicly. What makes filmmaking great is how widely you can draw from the world around you.",
  "title": "Timothée Chalamet Just Took a Shot at Ballet and Opera"
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