This year’s awards season has been unlike any other… down to a bizarre controversy around series of viral comments from Best Actor nominee Timothée Chalamet. While promoting his performance in Marty Supreme during A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event earlier this year, Chalamet expressed worry that the theatrical moviegoing experience might go the way of “ballet or opera”, where it is up to the artists to “keep this thing alive” even though “no one cares.”
Chalamet’s comments have inspired a slew of discourse — and more and more famous faces continue to weigh in. French actress Juliette Binoche, who has herself won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in The English Patient, addressed the ordeal during a Q&A session at the Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival. At first, Binoche joked that: “I thought cinema was a dying art.”
