Charlize Theron Blasts Timothée Chalamet for his Controversial Comments on Ballet
The rest of the world might have already forgotten about Timothée Chalamet’s comments on the ballet and opera, but not Charlize Theron. The Fury Road headliner is furious with the actor, whose Oscar dreams were famously dashed last month. “Oh, boy, I hope I run into him one day,” the combat-trained star tells the New York Times, in an interview published on April 18. At a Variety/CNN town hall event in February, Chalamet told Matthew McConaughey that he doubted the ongoing viability of some types of performance. “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s like, ‘Hey! Keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore,’” Chalamet said. “All respect to the ballet and opera people out there … I just lost 14 cents in viewership. I’m taking shots for no reason.” Chalamet’s comments didn’t surface in the media until the second week of March, several days after Academy Awards voting had closed. Still, some blame those statements for his best actor loss to Michael B. Jordan at …






