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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

The exact quote:

"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 any more.'"

I think people mainly responded to "even though like no one cares about this any more" because it implies HE doesn't care about them. People in the ballet and opera worlds did in fact take that personally, in part because Chalamet has close ties to the ballet community in NY, so this felt like a dismissal or put down whether he meant it that way or not.

I think if he didn't have this background and connection to the ballet/opera worlds, people would not have gotten as mad. The point is that people generally see the Chalamet family as an ally to these art forms which, yes, of course struggle to continue to find an audience. It's a comment you expect from someone totally ignorant of those art forms, not someone who grew up with close connections to those communities.[/quote]

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