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<\/a>Matthew McConaughey and Timothee Chalamet doing the “town hall” where the controversy began.<\/p><\/div>\n
So I\u2019m here to break it all down for you. At the end of February, Timothee was doing a \u201ctown hall\u201d discussion with Matthew McConaughey at the University of Texas at Austin. I don\u2019t quite know the purpose of it, but I\u2019m assuming it was just one piece of the publicity puzzle for his Oscar run at Best Actor for his nominated starring role in Marty Supreme<\/em>.<\/p>\n The two guys were talking about that they hoped that people would still choose to see films in actual theaters, as opposed to on TV, computers, or phones. Timothee said, \u201cI admire people, and I\u2019ve done it myself, who go on a talk show and say, \u2018Hey, we\u2019ve got to keep movie theaters alive, we\u2019ve gotta keep this genre alive.\u2019 I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera, or you know, things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive,’ even though it’s like, no one cares about this anymore.\u201d He said that last part lightheartedly. Then he quickly added, \u201cAll respect to the ballet and opera people out there. I just lost fourteen cents in viewership. I\u2019m taking shots for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n Timothee Chalamet in Marty Supreme.<\/p><\/div>\n It definitely was not smart to say that. It was one stupid statement, but it was said with no malice. He\u2019s thirty-years-old, and that\u2019s his opinion of arts that he and most likely his pals, (who include the very un<\/em>cultured Kardashian-Jenners,) don\u2019t care about, so he erroneously think they\u2019re dying. And remember\u2014he was talking to college kids<\/em> that day!<\/p>\n Chalamet’s mother and sister had both attended the School of American Ballet, and his grandma was actually a dancer with the New York City Ballet. So I doubt he hates<\/em> the art. As he stated, he just thinks that no one cares about it anymore.<\/p>\n As a matter of fact, in my own life, growing up, (including up through my twenties!,) I honestly never knew anyone else who loved ballet!!! Never. Girls I danced with loved dancing themselves, but outside of my mother, there was not one person I ever met back then who cared even one whit about the art. And even now, out of my plethora of pals, I have only a couple who want to see it. As a matter of fact, even as a dance major at prestigious UCLA, out of a class of two hundred incoming dancers, only two<\/em> of us were ballerinas\u2014everyone else was a contemporary, (or modern,) dancer! Even my fellow dancers<\/em> made fun of ballet! Crazy.<\/p>\n And to this day, I don\u2019t get opera, except for maybe one-off songs that are sort-of in the genre, such as Time To Say Goodbye<\/em> by Andrea Bocelli. Actually, I\u2019ve always loved a lot of the music<\/em> from famous operas, and even some of the full songs<\/em>. But I could not sit through a full opera, especially because they\u2019re all so depressing. (Operettas<\/em> are the happy ones, where nobody dies at the end.) And even though I fully appreciate<\/em> the mad talent that all opera singers possess, I really do<\/em> understand why a young-ish guy would consider it to be dying art.<\/p>\n Timothee Chalamet in Marty Supreme, for which he did most of his own amazing ping-pong playing!<\/p><\/div>\n So I\u2019m not against Timothee<\/em>\u2014I\u2019m totally against all those people who have been ragging on him for voicing his opinion, as erroneous as it might be. So none of them have ever had an unpopular stance, even privately?<\/p>\n To me, all those peeps are just like the mean kids at school. I assume that in every elementary school classroom, (and, very sadly, also many high school<\/em> ones,) there are rotten people like that, and it\u2019s disgusting. In my sixth grade class, someone decided that we should all call E.S. the \u201ccootie.\u201d It was horrible. And heartbreaking. Of course I<\/em> would not do that, and one day, when the bow on the back of her dress got undone, I re-tied it for her. She started crying, and to this day, I still hear her saying, \u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re not scared to touch me,\u201d and it breaks my heart. When I think of that, I always hope that E.S. has the happiest life. (And strangely, the idiot who began the \u201ccootie\u201d pointing was actually a very creepy nerd!)<\/p>\n Getting back to these current<\/em> idiots who decided they\u2019d try to ruin Timothee Chalamet\u2019s life and career because he thinks that nobody cares about ballet and opera\u2014what is wrong with them??? His dislike of anything<\/em> should not have ruled him out of winning a deserved Academy Award. As I tweeted right before the show, \u201cRegardless of who I think deserves to win the Oscar for Best Actor, all<\/em> winners should be voted on for the merit of their work, not if they said something stupid leading up to the vote. I would not want to win by default. The world is crazy now. Ballet has always been my favorite art form, but I can\u2019t get angry at a young \u2019un for thinking it\u2019s a dying art.\u201d<\/p>\n As to the people who gleefully celebrated that he lost what was supposed to be his<\/em> Oscar to the absolutely un<\/em>deserving Michael B. Jordan, (who played twins<\/em> in Sinners<\/em>, but there was absolutely no distinction between the two,) you should be proud of yourselves. And how does that make your<\/em> life better???<\/p>\n Timothee Chalamet sitting in the front row at the Oscars, enjoying jokes made at his own expense, accompanied by his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner.<\/p><\/div>\n I really hope that, with a bit of hindsight, some of those creeps see the error of their ways, and would not have been so mean to begin with, except that they were emboldened by the pack mentality.<\/p>\n Timothee was a great sport to sit there in the first row of the audience, and laugh at jokes about his faux pas, and act happy for Michael; he was basically resigned to the outcome. I never cared about the kid before, but now I have respect for him.<\/p>\n And to remind everyone of what happened with the Oscars last year. Transgender actress Karla Sof\u00eda Gasc\u00f3n, who starred in and as Emilia P\u00e9rez<\/em>, became reviled for old very disturbing discriminatory tweets after she had already been nominated for many acting awards, including the Oscar. So she didn\u2019t even show up to the ceremony. What she had said was a zillion times worse than anything Timothee said.<\/p>\n I do feel awful for Timothee, but it is<\/em> a lesson to everyone in show biz. And that is that there\u2019s a fine line between doing the necessary publicity and keeping your true<\/em> thoughts to yourself. Just keep everything light, laud every single person and activity that you can, and then politely shut it down.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>