The fallout from Timothée Chalamet’s recent ill-advised comment about keeping shared and personal artistic experiences alive will define the closing stage of his Academy Award for Best Actor campaign, as fellow recent nominee-turned-pariah Carla Sofía Gascón now weighs in on the controversy with her own signature style of humor.
Chalamet, who was promoting Inferno from his Oscar-winning vehicle Marty Supreme This awards season, he’s racked up almost every award in his run toward what could be his first Oscar win. But the ubiquity of the election campaign may now be backfiring on the beloved actor after comments he made in a conversation with Matthew McConaughey at a meeting. diverse and CNN Town Hall.
The offensive comment came while the actor was discussing the importance of movie theaters and the collective experience of watching movies in theaters. At that point, Chalamet seemed to be overestimating the level of life support needed to keep ballet companies and opera productions afloat today, while perhaps also underestimating their popularity.
“I don’t want to work in ballet or opera, or things like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about that anymore.’ Much respect to all the ballet and opera people out there,” he said during the Feb. 24 conversation.
Seemingly realizing immediately that the remark might be taken out of context — and ignite a backlash that could torpedo his Oscar campaign — Chalamet added: “I just lost 14 cents in viewership. I took pictures for no reason.”
Chalamet’s stack came quickly. Opera singers Isabelle Leonard and Dipa Juni said they were “shocked” that it would be “so eloquent and narrow-minded”, describing the comments as “disappointing” respectively. New York’s Metropolitan Opera responded with an Instagram video giving a peek behind the scenes, with the caption, “All respect to the opera (and ballet) workers there.” Then the shadow came from The viewvoiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin, with the latter calling him “petty” and “shallow.”
The actor is now receiving some unsolicited advice on social media from another highly acclaimed and then much-reviled Oscar-nominated actor, Gascón.
Let’s think back to the lead-up to the 2025 Oscars, when Gascón’s film was screened Emilia Perez It was widely viewed as Netflix’s expected golden goose at the ceremony and some expected it to give the streamer its first Best Picture win. But Gascón’s previous social media posts resurfaced and included inflammatory statements about George Floyd, Muslim culture, and diversity.
In her March 9 post, Gascón and Chalamet appeared as the characters Emilia Perez and Marty Supremeto make it look like they were talking to each other on the phone – re-sharing a photo posted on her Instagram Stories. In the caption, she addresses the repercussions he’s going through now.
“Hey Carla, do you think they’ll make me walk the red carpet at the Oscars?” The meme reads. Gascón added her own thoughts on top of the original post.
“Are you a trans woman? Then don’t worry about it, Tim.”
“Besides, I like ballet slippers, and I’ve seen them The Phantom of the Opera “I’m not sure if this matters for anything,” she wrote ten times. Good luck with the prizes. Even though no one saw or heard me say anything, while they saw and heard you, people still seem to prefer to believe everything the evil ones claim I said.
Will Chalamet suffer the same fate as Gascón at the Oscars on Sunday? Hollywood nearly shunned her before the ceremony during the press blitz to promote her film, which was the most nominated but ultimately won only two Oscars: Best Original Song and Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña.
Let’s hope, l MartyBecause the backlash will soon end.
