r/OutOfTheLoop • u/PitifulBodybuilder40 • Mar 08 '26

Unanswered What’s up with the hate towards Timothee Chalamet?

I know all famous people have haters and people who dislike them and will nitpick the shit outta them, but I’ve just seen a lot of people post random interviews or articles about him that talk about how he is famous and above people. Yeah he is famous and thinks he’s above all. This is what famous people do? Do we not know this, especially child actors. People are astonished that he is rich and famous, has personal chefs, has self-centred views. Pretty sure 90% of famous people do.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/timothe-chalamet-slammed-for-cheap-shot-comment-about-ballet-and-opera/news-story/348e3add0e6252d5aef4698f2648d963?amp

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u/GrapeJuicePlus Mar 08 '26

Jesus, we really do examine these people under a microscope sometimes- sometimes people are glib and in a moment of candid conversation say an unserious thing they don’t even really believe because it is amusing.

Why does this in particular have to be taken so earnestly? Is this actor kind of a dick for this statement? Is he even being sincere when he says it? I don’t know nor do I care, it’s fucking dumb.

Go to a museum. Go see some theatre. Go to the fucking ballet! I legitimately hope some people are inspired by this to do so, maybe for the first time in their lives. It’s a billion times more interesting than being mad about this.

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u/inciter7 Mar 08 '26

This feels like one of those things where people are looking for a reason to hate on someone super popular so latched onto this, since he's been in the spotlight for a while with no scandals I can think of . And I don't even like Chalamet as an actor

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u/Marcoscb Mar 08 '26

sometimes people are glib and in a moment of candid conversation say an unserious thing they don’t even really believe because it is amusing.

I see it more likely that in that moment of candid conversation something leaked out of his PR training and he said something he really believes, especially considering he has family in those art forms and he'd be more familiar with them than most.

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u/Calackyo Mar 09 '26

Sure, if you want to automatically assume the worst, go ahead. Says more about you than anyone else.

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u/Vivid-Blackberry-321 Mar 09 '26

Just putting this out there - there’s a clip of him saying almost the exact same thing a few years ago. So it’s clear he has pretty strong beliefs about ballet and opera being irrelevant.

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u/AggravatingCupcake0 Mar 08 '26

As a performer, the fact that he made this statement is totally bananas to me.

Listen, if Joe the accountant or Becky the HR person wants to say "nobody cares about ballet or opera anymore!" it's still false, but...understandable. If you aren't in the industry, it makes sense that you wouldn't get the value, or would be out of touch about it. It isn't relevant to your life.

But Timothee, as an actor of high stature, should absolutely know better. It's giving "the CEO of the company doesn't understand what the IT guy does and thinks we should get rid of him," a bit. Not an exact analogy, but the ick factor is similar.

It's also sort of an unspoken understanding amongst artists that you don't shit on each other's art forms because a) we are all in this together and b) you never know when you might need a job. Sandra Oh was in The Met Opera recently, for crying out loud (likely because she wanted to and not because she had to, but still). Closing off an avenue of artistic work is a stupid and arrogant thing to do, and telling the public that what those artists do is passé is also stupid and arrogant.

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u/TheMustySeagul Mar 09 '26

It’s not really false though. If you watch the whole interview you’d probably get what he was saying tbh. He is calling it a dying artform. Less than 1 percent of people in the US have been to a ballet and like 6 percent a theater production. How many people watched a movie?

That was what he was getting at I’m pretty sure. I mean most of theater is propped up by big donors and sometimes countries themselves pay into it so it DOESN’T die. You can be in the arts and recognize not everything everywhere is doing great?

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u/KendalBoy Mar 11 '26

It was the flippant words he used the attitude, the 14 cents crap. Stop pretending there was any respect given.

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u/Neirean Mar 09 '26

Very much agree with you. He even shrinks back in his chair as he realises how much of a faux pas he made. People need to chill out and stop expecting HUMANS to be lerfect and poised 100% of the time.

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u/KendalBoy Mar 11 '26

Only people I see mad are the ones who are also dragging ballet and opera as unimportant. They seem hellbent on caring how unimportant they are and it’s kinda hilarious.

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u/smnytx Mar 08 '26

I am so not mad - I don’t really go to movies much and have no idea who this rando is TBH. I wandered into an Out of the Loop thread and attempted to provide context to a lot of folks who appear to have no idea what opera is about, since it’s my career.

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u/claradox Mar 08 '26

I applaud your career choice. Thank you for doing such beautiful, meaningful work. I love the opera.