Timothee Chalamet comment

As someone who used to enjoy Timothée Chalamet’s older movies like Beautiful Boy, Call Me by Your Name, and Lady Bird, hearing his comments about ballet and opera was honestly disappointing. To be honest, I used to really like him because I felt like he was different and he was contributing to the real art pieces in cinema but after this and other current stuff he's been doing I can't say the same. He basically suggested that these are art forms people feel like they have to “keep alive,” like no one really cares about them anymore. Even if some people argue that the clip was taken out of context, he is still a 30 year old famous male with a huge platform who should know better than to say something like that so casually. What bothers me the most is that these female dominated art spaces already have a hard time being taken seriously. Ballet especially is often associated with femininity, beauty, and just acting graceful, which society tends to undervalue. But in reality, dancers train for years and push their bodies in extremely intense ways the most people will never understand. When a powerful male celebrity dismisses it like that, it just reinforces the idea that these spaces are less important. It makes it even harder for them to be respected as real, serious art.