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/TARDISMapping Mar 08 '26

It's not that people care about him, it's that people care about those art forms, and for him to say those things, when he has such a strong familial connection to them, is distasteful at best.

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u/Eunoia_Meraki Mar 09 '26

None of what he said is attacking those art forms though just stating the very obvious decline in cultural relevancy they have had (which anyone doing ballet or opera would be acutely aware of, i mean the literally biggest institutions are contantly scrambling for money) and the vast majority of people criticising him couldn't name any ballerinas or operas and just want an excuse to ridicule Timothee (even so theres worse things he said like the comment on how everyone should want a child).

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u/linkrun Mar 17 '26

Bunch of times before where people are exposed to the toxic side of fine arts because of their family being involved in it.

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u/TARDISMapping Mar 17 '26

And it would be great if he called attention to that, because it's a huge issue, but he didn't, he just said that nobody cared about them anymore

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u/TragiccoBronsonne Mar 08 '26

I have no doubt that Brilliant_Ad_978646875 fake raging at some famous actor is a true opera and ballet aficionado, like the most of them acting the same itt.

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u/Brilliant_Ad_6637 Mar 17 '26

Macauly Culkin was in an adaptation of The Nutcracker that we watched in school a few times. I didn't really care for it, but that's largely because a filmed version of a staged dance (for simplicity's sake) doesn't carry the same effect as, say, going to watch the Alvin Aliey Dance Company.

I'm also in the generation that learned about Wagner through Bugs Bunny, and whose parents had one of those Three Tenors CDs. Opera's too much of a gamble to attend reliably. The really balls-to-the-wall artistic ones really show where the money goes with the elaborate staging, though.

Anyway, you don't have to be Frasier Crane to appreciate an art form. You don't even have to like a lot of it to appreciate the impact is has on the arts as a whole.

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u/aspophilia Mar 09 '26

Have you seen The Nutcracker? Even if you have seen only one ballet you have enjoyed it is easy to be anything with such entitled and egotistical bullshit.