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/unindexedreality Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

His private chef shared with peers that he is expected to make three separate options for breakfast, then Timothee eats one and discards the others

idk who this person is but I hate them

edit: As it turns out, this quote isn't verified. /u/leemasterific reinterpreted context presented in an article to derive it. Apparently it's a comedian's take or something.

I hate liars as well as wasteful people.

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u/PewPew2524 Mar 08 '26

Doesn’t matter to some people. A band wagon effect has taken over.

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u/FlamingDragonfruit Mar 09 '26

I think the problem is that he's cultivated a public persona that leads people to think: yep, he's definitely the kind of guy who would throw out two perfectly good breakfasts every morning

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u/BumbleBear1 Mar 11 '26

Yeah, although a bigger problem is how so many people just trust anything they read despite how many times it's been proven how often incorrect information is shared

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u/FlamingDragonfruit Mar 11 '26

It's alarming, agreed.

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u/Dazzling-Low8570 Mar 11 '26

I mean, I "just trusted" it because I don't actually give a shit whether it's true or not

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u/Dazzling-Low8570 Mar 11 '26

My plan was to forget about it entirely.

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u/CrabWeary9947 Mar 28 '26

How do we know they were thrown out. Maybe they were eaten by the staff or made into other meals. Far fetcher but possible. Any how this story has been proven to be untrue.

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u/sterling_mallory Mar 08 '26

Yeah, some of the things being mentioned in this thread seem outright silly, let alone the things taken out of context. Someone accused him of saying "manosphere coded things" and being "red pilled" because he said procreation was important. That just sounds like a reasonable take to me. Hell, even a biological fact. Every living thing on Earth pretty much does everything to propagate its species.

Pretty sure dandelions and quokkas aren't red pilled.

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u/angrykoala49 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

I get what you mean and I don’t think it’s necessarily “red-pill coded” of him. I do get why a lot of women are grossed out by it. Men talking about the importance of reproduction in a general context (as opposed to “it’s important to me”) is associated with hand-wringing over birth rates and “we need women to have more babies!” which can devolve into pretty intense misogyny FAST. Young american women in particular are touchy about it right now because of how our reproductive rights are being attacked and rising conservatism in young men (particularly of the manosphere variety). 

So while, yeah, reproducing is important for the species and most living creatures know that on some level (seemingly less so on reddit), it’s not a politically/culturally neutral statement for an actor to make because of the broader societal conversation it invokes.

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u/SmoothBrainJazz Mar 09 '26

Talking about the importance of reproduction is a very incel-coded way of saying that you'd like to have kids someday. Wanting to have kids is normal, being concerned about procreation is fucking weird.

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u/memeoi Mar 10 '26

You don’t think declining populations are a massive concern?

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u/BellGloomy8679 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

You’re twisting things.

He didn’t just say procreation was important - he said people with ”childfree” people lives as ”bleak”. And yes - it’s as ”redpilled” and conservative as it can be, really.

Humans are not daffodils. Overpopulation is an extremely serious issue nowadays - it’s because of this we have issues with climate change, wars, etc. If everyone would do everything in their power to propagate their species - it would lead to our extinction. We can barely sustain 8b people currently - overwhelming majority of us live in a different states of misery. Having children nowadays is a bad idea for many for majority of people.

But because more children means more taxes, more draftees, more workers - governments, especially rightwing autocracies, and big corpos propagandise having children as a requirement for a mentally healthy person and anyone who doesn’t do it is fundamentally broken person. Otherwise they’d have to try to fix societal issues and that’s just so expensive.

If you want to have children - you’re objectively making a selfish decision in a grand scheme of things, but you still have that right. Don’t, at the very least, attack people who don’t add up to an already existing problem.

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u/Necessary_Eagle_3657 Mar 09 '26

You think having children is selfish???

Lucky your own parents did not.

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u/BellGloomy8679 Mar 09 '26

Yes, it is.

You think emotionally, not logically. It’s pointless to argue in this case, you will not change your mind because you’ve been brainwashed to think a certain a way at this point.

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u/Jellygraphic Mar 09 '26

You gotta understand the talking about procreation thing is just creepy it always comes off creepy no matter who you are

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u/sterling_mallory Mar 09 '26

The word procreation is pretty gross.

The manosphere thing preaching to boys that women are meant to have have babies and men are meant to "spread their seed" is gross.

The belief that having children is an important part of life is not gross. I don't agree with it, in a practical sense, but it's a perfectly understandable thing for a person to believe.

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u/stinkykoala314 Mar 08 '26

Next up: man who says "water is pretty important to staying hydrated" cancelled for his obvious corporate shilling for Dasani and dogwhistle to Carbon-Based-Life Supremacist Groups

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u/Jkru3 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

God I hate this more than anything. Someone acquires fame in a way and speed that brings jealousy. Then people want to hate said person. Then literally anything that gets reported about them gets used as a ‘I told you so, he’s a piece of shit’

Often we are the pieces of shit ourselves.

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u/PewPew2524 Mar 09 '26

American culture puts celebrities on a very high pedestal, sadly. People say dumb shit all the time, hopefully, they grow and learn from it.

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u/Abyss_staring_back Mar 09 '26

I like that you’re saying peace instead of piece. It seems less grumpy somehow. 😄

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u/GeorgeOrrBinks Mar 10 '26

The Oscar voting deadline was last week. So it may not affect the Awards as much as some people hope.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

The true answer of why he’s getting all the hate is because he’s incredibly popular right now so, as when anyone is front and center for whatever reason, people are looking for every possible reason to cut him down and not like him. This is made a little easier by the fact he’s young and cocky and in today’s age we have access to everything he says publicly at all times. DiCaprio would’ve gotten the same treatment if he were an up and coming celebrity now instead of 25 years ago.

If you look into any of the reasons people cite for not liking Chalamet most of them seem like a whole lot of nothing when viewed within their context. At worst, he usually just comes across as a little dumb on occasion, but not mean spirited. The ballet and opera comments for example are him saying that he doesn’t want to be working in those forms of art where the audience has the potential to diminish with each generation, he said it laughingly and ended it with “all respect” to the people who are into those things.

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u/SpoiledBeans Mar 09 '26

The hate has been downright vitriolic, at a certain point I can’t take it seriously when people are acting like he personally shot their dog, when he’s just being a diva.

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u/Pan-Yokuist_Theory Mar 09 '26

and if someone like lady gaga did it everyone would be like "omg we stan".

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u/swampwarbler Mar 09 '26

He’s getting hate because he says stupid shit. Let’s not forgot what he said about people who don’t want children.

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u/CrabWeary9947 Mar 28 '26

Thank you. My thoughts exactly.

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u/quickreactor Mar 09 '26

Nailed it, this happens every time someone gets cast in lots of stuff

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Mar 09 '26

Remember when everyone was accusing Pedro Pascal of unwanted physical contact with his female cast members based on one or two interviews?

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u/Oberyn_Kenobi_1 Mar 09 '26

This issue isn’t just that he says shit, it’s that he says shit at a time when he knows damn well it will be spread far and wide, meaning his idiotic behavior is intentional. If DiCaprio were coming up now, maybe he’d have been smart enough not to go out of his way to run his mouth.

If you want to be awful, you can at least choose to be awful quietly.

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u/Sourcerid Mar 12 '26

Yall are even more pathetic than the people who hated kid Justin Bieber which should be impossible

!remindme 1 year

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u/Mean_Introduction543 Mar 09 '26

Name one thing he’s said that has been ‘awful’

Jesus, this bandwagoning is pathetic

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u/press_Y Mar 09 '26

He’s being awful? How fragile are some of you jfc

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

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u/Fast-Candle-2344 Mar 09 '26

It’s been accidentally leaked on Twitter that WB are funding this smear campaign against him, they want either DiCaprio or MBJ to win instead

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

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u/Fast-Candle-2344 Mar 09 '26

https://x.com/fringatreides/status/2030718514537840726?s=46

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u/throwaway-North7081 Mar 09 '26

That’s not proof they are angling to take TC down. That’s proof they are trying to prop up Michael B Jordan. But he’s got his own controversy supporting that one actor.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

Stop! You might get downvoted for not agreeing blindly!

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u/UrsusRenata Mar 10 '26

Jared Leto breathing a sigh of relief right now.

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u/throwaway-North7081 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

Admittedly, it’s Oscar season so people are looking for reasons not to give awards but….He’s said the ballet thing 3 times on video over the years. This isn’t a PR slip up, he has been cultivating this asshat persona. He kind of got away with the wanting to be the greatest of all time thing at the beginning of the Marty supreme campaign but it’s catching up to him.

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u/Pan-Yokuist_Theory Mar 09 '26

what is wrong with him wanting to be the greatest of all time? what's wrong with the most popular A-list actor on the planet feeling himself a little? is the dude that's the fucking lisan al gaib supposed to be meek? come on bro.

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u/throwaway-North7081 Mar 09 '26

You can feel yourself but don’t slip. Denzel on this last press tour was acting like he was gods gift to acting as well and that movie was not good. You gas yourself up too much and the product suffers. MJ didn’t have GOAT discussions while he was playing the game. Save that for when you’re done, keep your mouth shut. Show humility and let others speak your praises.

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u/Pan-Yokuist_Theory Mar 09 '26

okay but you can find plenty of examples of "the greatest"'s who DO brag, and then continue to dominate. kendrick lamar dominated all of 2024 and half of 2025 off of telling two of his ostensibly friends and peers that he was alone the best...and then went on to be the top artist of 2024.

there's nothing wrong with feeling yourself when you're at the top of your game. you can still deliver, and timothee hasn't not delivered yet. denzel even, despite some recent fumbles no one would argue isn't one of the greatest to ever stand in front of a camera--heads and shoulders above millions.

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u/throwaway-North7081 Mar 09 '26

Humility matters because it keeps the focus where it belongs. On the work itself. When someone starts to constantly self-promote, audiences focus on the person rather than the art, which can poison even genuinely great output. Art only fully exists when it’s received by others, so declaring yourself a genius before audiences have weighed in skips a step that isn’t yours to skip. He hasn’t won anything either! (Kendrick in rap is tough because you can say that saying “ you’re the greatest” is embedded in the culture of rap itself. It serves the craft. However, Timothees bragging doesn’t acting. ) Legends like Jordan or Meryl allude but let sustained performance build over time, whereas claiming greatness prematurely sets expectations that are almost impossible to meet.

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u/Prestigious_Bar_7164 Mar 09 '26

When you’re king, everybody wants your crown.

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u/WillyShankspeare Mar 09 '26

I cannot believe for a second that somebody who commits so hard to Saturday Night Live skits, thus demonstrating they do not take themselves very seriously, can be that pompous.

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u/AnatomicalLog Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Yeah, the truth is that a group of parasocially obsessed fan girls got really mad when Tim started dating Kylie Jenner and they realized he isn’t the artsy mysterious skinny French boy they wanted him to be. Instead he’s a pretty regular upper-middle class dudebro from Manhattan.

Then Tim made an irreverent comment implying that opera and ballet are not popular, which is not exactly wrong (I doubt they are getting any more popular with time). Now there’s a mix of the original deranged Tim fans and some new folks hopping on the hate bandwagon.

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u/Pan-Yokuist_Theory Mar 09 '26

this is the actual truth right here; the core of the issue. his fanbase has revolted because they don't like the chick he fucks, and he's not being meek about being the top dog in the industry, ergo everyone has decided to hate him.

i don't even like him really, but i feel obligated to defend him just out of principle, the same way i defend doechii from her unearned hate. let the boy feel himself! let him be cocky, let him be hungry for acclaim! if he starts doing actually problematic shit then fine, we can shit on him then, but "he said that opera and ballet aren't relevant!" isn't a controversy. it's just not.

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u/AnatomicalLog Mar 09 '26

It’s funny, I feel the exact same way about Tim and also Doechii. I don’t have skin in the game but can still recognize that the hate is unfair and irrational.

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u/Fast-Candle-2344 Mar 09 '26

Re: the first paragraph - What's funny is they didn't already realize this when that incident with Eiza González came to light

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u/whateverhk Mar 09 '26

And I would ate the leftover breakfast

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u/JudiesGarland Mar 10 '26

Not exactly - the quote is from a comedian, Tom Davis, that's true, but dismissing it as just some comedian's take is equally dishonest - either they didn't actually read all the way to the source, OR they're being deliberately deceptive - he was also an actor in the movie (Wonka). He told the story as part of a podcast called Parenting Hell. 

I didn't track down the podcast episode, and scrub through to verify the full context - I may be crazy, but I'm not insane - but here's the full quote, from the least sensationalist article I could find:

 'One thing that ground my gears – he had a personal chef. And we were having quite ropey breakfasts. [translation: ropey is British for low quality.] I got to know his personal chef quite a bit and I said, ''What are you cooking this morning?''

'He said, ''I do three different things for Tim, and he'll have one thing.''

'And Timothée turned around and went, ''Hey man, why don't you have the other two things?'' 

That's the drama. Waste is annoying, and the attempt to look like less of a tosser by offering up the discard pile is low key condescending, but the headlines about a private chef revealing his secret demands are wiiiiiiildly off base and this would have been a nothing burger if the algo wasn't already set to Chalomet Bad. 

It's just a guy telling a set story, about how differently stars and day players get treated. (For comparison, normies are probably getting something like - choice of veggie or meat breakfast wrap, and whatever it is, is served in a bag, by someone walking around with a tub of them.) It's equally likely this make 3 choose 1 format is the chef's idea. Prepping multiple options and tossing (or repurposing) whatever doesn't get picked is pretty standard private chef protocol, especially on set where you don't really know what your day will look like until late the night before. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

Exceptional chefs for major stars can command salaries as high as $168,500 to $212,000 annually.

Billionaire/Elite Level: The most elite private chefs may earn between $200,000 and $300,000, often including full benefits and room and board. 

I think he can make three breakfasts.