Chalamet ballet thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He just said what most people are thinking.

Maybe. Most of the people that I know are saying—and thinking — that it’s a shame that programs like those at the Kennedy Center that have brought a wide array of free and low-cost performances and workshops to students and communities will be shuttered. To be fair though, I tend to know more NPR people and Duke Ellington School of the Arts people than TikTok people, so my perspectives may have their biases.

Funny to think that Chalamet owes his early home and a good chunk of his education to those of us who spent quite a lot more than 14 cents of our tax dollars supporting things like arts education and artist’s housing. Hope he gives back at some point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He just said what most people are thinking.

Maybe. Most of the people that I know are saying—and thinking — that it’s a shame that programs like those at the Kennedy Center that have brought a wide array of free and low-cost performances and workshops to students and communities will be shuttered. To be fair though, I tend to know more NPR people and Duke Ellington School of the Arts people than TikTok people, so my perspectives may have their biases.

Funny to think that Chalamet owes his early home and a good chunk of his education to those of us who spent quite a lot more than 14 cents of our tax dollars supporting things like arts education and artist’s housing. Hope he gives back at some point.

I feel like these programs are nice generally but I wonder if the price for other people get jacked up to fund them. My ds has benefited from them with band and got to see shows for a relatively low (not free) cost. However, for families who don't benefit from low cost tickets, it is not remotely affordable and that is a shame. It's like the cost of tickets is constantly going up. The Nutcracker near me is $80+ for tickets and those would be the worst ones. Same with musical theater: I paid $500 for seats for my family which was a lot for us and the first time in many years we were all going. The people next to us who came late were talking about how great it was to have free tickets and how they go all the time. They were really loud and on their phones (which the ushers did nothing about). It did not feel worth it.

[Anonymous]

One could say with AI why keep the “art form” of acting a live. He easily could be out of a job within the next 10years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He just said what most people are thinking.

Maybe. Most of the people that I know are saying—and thinking — that it’s a shame that programs like those at the Kennedy Center that have brought a wide array of free and low-cost performances and workshops to students and communities will be shuttered. To be fair though, I tend to know more NPR people and Duke Ellington School of the Arts people than TikTok people, so my perspectives may have their biases.

Funny to think that Chalamet owes his early home and a good chunk of his education to those of us who spent quite a lot more than 14 cents of our tax dollars supporting things like arts education and artist’s housing. Hope he gives back at some point.

I feel like these programs are nice generally but I wonder if the price for other people get jacked up to fund them. My ds has benefited from them with band and got to see shows for a relatively low (not free) cost. However, for families who don't benefit from low cost tickets, it is not remotely affordable and that is a shame. It's like the cost of tickets is constantly going up. The Nutcracker near me is $80+ for tickets and those would be the worst ones. Same with musical theater: I paid $500 for seats for my family which was a lot for us and the first time in many years we were all going. The people next to us who came late were talking about how great it was to have free tickets and how they go all the time. They were really loud and on their phones (which the ushers did nothing about). It did not feel worth it.

I don’t know enough about what a seat (full or empty) actually costs for a given performance. I do know that many of the programs mention specific grants that support them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think he just annoys people generally and that comment just crystallized why he annoys people. He's arrogant and shallow. He is a talented actor who gets amazing roles and gets these crazy opportunities to work with great directors. It gives the impression he's a deep and sensitive person because how does he play these roles otherwise? But he's not. He's shallow, doesn't particularly care about the arts, full of himself, etc.

It's not really just the one comment, it's his whole vibe, but it's like the one comment finally allowed people to admit to themselves they don't like him and think he's a f**k boi.

Most Hollywood actors are, so this is not a huge surprise, but people just thought he was different because of the caliber of roles he's played. They thought he was a Michael B. Jordan, he's actually a young Zach Braff but just a better, more versatile actor.

I think he tanked this persona by dating a Kardashian...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He just said what most people are thinking.

Not only that but I see it more as a warning of where film is headed (or is already there, to some extent— just look at how many films lost money in the box office).

People seemed to miss the point entirely.

Ironically, Chalamet’s film is one of the few that did make a lot of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think he was annoying and gave seriously entitled vibes well before that. His Kardashianification didn't help either.

This. He's well-known for being a pompous prick who thinks he's a "serious thespian" and better than everyone else. He deserves everything he's getting. People were just looking for a reason to take him down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he was annoying and gave seriously entitled vibes well before that. His Kardashianification didn't help either.

This. He's well-known for being a pompous prick who thinks he's a "serious thespian" and better than everyone else. He deserves everything he's getting. People were just looking for a reason to take him down.

He's not my favorite actor by any means but you have to acknowledge he has an impressive catalogue. I don't see that changing.

I mean, Sean Penn is disgusting as a human being and yet he won an Oscar last night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he was annoying and gave seriously entitled vibes well before that. His Kardashianification didn't help either.

This. He's well-known for being a pompous prick who thinks he's a "serious thespian" and better than everyone else. He deserves everything he's getting. People were just looking for a reason to take him down.

He's not my favorite actor by any means but you have to acknowledge he has an impressive catalogue. I don't see that changing.

I mean, Sean Penn is disgusting as a human being and yet he won an Oscar last night.

This. Everyone raging at Chalamet and then they turn around and award Penn again?! Even Penn thinks it’s a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think he just annoys people generally and that comment just crystallized why he annoys people. He's arrogant and shallow. He is a talented actor who gets amazing roles and gets these crazy opportunities to work with great directors. It gives the impression he's a deep and sensitive person because how does he play these roles otherwise? But he's not. He's shallow, doesn't particularly care about the arts, full of himself, etc.

It's not really just the one comment, it's his whole vibe, but it's like the one comment finally allowed people to admit to themselves they don't like him and think he's a f**k boi.

Most Hollywood actors are, so this is not a huge surprise, but people just thought he was different because of the caliber of roles he's played. They thought he was a Michael B. Jordan, he's actually a young Zach Braff but just a better, more versatile actor.

Honestly I think Zach Brady is more earnest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are stupid.

And he's right - ballet and classical music struggle to find audiences these days. I know, a close friend of my son is a ballet trainee, and I love opera and classical music.

This is not why he didn't win an Oscar. Sinners and OBAA were just too on point for this year. It happens.

It’s just much to expensive between tickets and parking/taxi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a publicity stunt and it is working. Look at all the press he’s getting. Next he’ll redeem himself by enrolling in a ballet class at ABT and doing a Netflix show about it.

He has already taken plenty of ballet classes. That's likely why he's bitter about it. His grandmother was a dancer with the New York City Ballet, and his mom and sister both trained with the School of American Ballet in their professional program. He grew up attending performances at Lincoln Center and having a backstage view of one of the best ballet companies in the world.

He's being a petulant child and trying to say "my art is better than your art because at least people watch my art." And maybe he found the ballet very boring as a kid and resented having to go. Fine. Coming from an artistic family led directly to him become an actor at a young age and there is no question that his early exposure to such a high caliber of performance and having family members performing at that level helped him learn his craft. Several people who know his family, both dancers and actors, have pointed this out. His family is well known within the NY ballet world and he personally knows many of the people at the major companies.

He's just a brat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a publicity stunt and it is working. Look at all the press he’s getting. Next he’ll redeem himself by enrolling in a ballet class at ABT and doing a Netflix show about it.

He has already taken plenty of ballet classes. That's likely why he's bitter about it. His grandmother was a dancer with the New York City Ballet, and his mom and sister both trained with the School of American Ballet in their professional program. He grew up attending performances at Lincoln Center and having a backstage view of one of the best ballet companies in the world.

He's being a petulant child and trying to say "my art is better than your art because at least people watch my art." And maybe he found the ballet very boring as a kid and resented having to go. Fine. Coming from an artistic family led directly to him become an actor at a young age and there is no question that his early exposure to such a high caliber of performance and having family members performing at that level helped him learn his craft. Several people who know his family, both dancers and actors, have pointed this out. His family is well known within the NY ballet world and he personally knows many of the people at the major companies.

He's just a brat.

That’s a lot of reading into things he didn’t say. All he said is that ballet and opera don’t have large audiences — which is a fact. He wants to be in films that have large audiences, and it’s a fact that he has been in films with large audiences.

[Anonymous]

Seems to me that he’s widely disliked so when the opportunity came to pounce everyone did.

[Anonymous]

As someone who has some experience in Opera the thing is he's not totally wrong and there's a very real economic problem in opera where a lot of the model is propped up by young artists taking on a lot of debt with no real financial prospects. The tuition in music programs can be quite expensive, people actually pay fees to do some auditions.

Renee Fleming openly criticized these programs: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/2025/09/10/some-opera-companies-seek-new-models-as-audience-financial-support-decline/85763085007/

Ballet has even shorter careers and requires a lot of financial sacrifice as well.

I don't know if that was the point Chalamet was really making but he's not wrong that these programs are propped up by young people who aren't necessarily being helped out.