Don’t denounce Timothée Chalamet for what he said about opera and ballet – prove him wrong

Mathias Dingman and Geneviève Penn Nabity in Don Quixote by Birmingham Royal Ballet. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Timothée Chalamet thinks no one cares about opera or ballet. He told Matthew McConaughey so. Also, the entire world.

“I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this any more’,” Chalamet said in a recorded conversation for Variety.