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Met Opera Fires Back at Timothee Chalamet Over Controversial Remarks

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Timothée Chalamet beefing with the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera and Royal Ballet was not on anyone’s 2026 bingo card. Chalamet, 30, raised eyebrows after making an off-handed comment about the performing arts community during an onstage conversation with Variety, which was published last month. “Some people want to be entertained quickly. I’m really right in the middle,” Chalamet explained to Matthew McConaughey while discussing audiences’ shortened attention spans. “Because I admire people [saying], ‘Hey, we gotta keep movie theaters alive. We gotta keep this genre alive.’” Chalamet noted, “I...