Chalamet ballet thing

[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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It doesn't explain why you NEVER see students at these things. I used to get student tickets for dirt cheap (and to my knowledge, student tickets are still a thing). Meanwhile people don't mind shelling out hundreds to see Taylor Swift or major sports games and even travel to do so. I don't think it's just a money thing.

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t matter. He already won “White Boy of the year award” which is the highest honor. Look up his acceptance speech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how it's been hyped to such a point. He made one stupid comment, immediately said (because I looked up the whole quote) that he didn't even know why he said that and no disrespect to ballet, AND his own mom is a former ballerina with the New York City Ballet and his grandma and sister also were ballerinas! It seems crazy people are saying it cost him the Oscar and he's now so hated because of it and people are tearing him down for it.

She was not a former ballerina at NYCB. Yes, she danced there, but as a child, and probably as a soldier or rat in their annual Nutcracker performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It doesn't explain why you NEVER see students at these things. I used to get student tickets for dirt cheap (and to my knowledge, student tickets are still a thing). Meanwhile people don't mind shelling out hundreds to see Taylor Swift or major sports games and even travel to do so. I don't think it's just a money thing.

That was the point he was trying to make. Opera and ballet are dying art forms because young people aren’t all that interested in going. He doesn’t want movies to end up that way which is why he tries to bring young audiences to movie theaters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It doesn't explain why you NEVER see students at these things. I used to get student tickets for dirt cheap (and to my knowledge, student tickets are still a thing). Meanwhile people don't mind shelling out hundreds to see Taylor Swift or major sports games and even travel to do so. I don't think it's just a money thing.

That was the point he was trying to make. Opera and ballet are dying art forms because young people aren’t all that interested in going. He doesn’t want movies to end up that way which is why he tries to bring young audiences to movie theaters.

Sure but then people say "oh, it's just too expensive." Like, please. People want to be somewhere on their phones.