Timothée Chalamet’s comment on the contemporary state of opera and ballet in a CNN/Variety town hall last month was among the targets of “Saturday Night Live‘s” “Weekend Update” segment.
Chalamet’s remarks came on the Feb. 21 “CNN and Variety Town Hall Event” with Matthew McConaughey as the pair talked about the struggles in recent years for theatrical movies.
“And I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive.’ Even though it’s like, no one cares about this anymore. All respect to the ballet and opera people out there,” Chalamet said.
The comment has drawn strong responses from prominent opera and ballet companies in the U.S. On Saturday, “SNL” went pretty easy on the Oscar-nominated star of “Marty Supreme,” the story of a ping-pong prodigy in the 1950s. “Weekend Update” anchor Colin Jost observed that Chalamet has been “criticized by major opera and ballet organizations after he said that no one cares about those art forms. Chalamet made the comment on a press tour for his movie about ping-pong.”
Among other zingers, Jost commented on Kristi Noem’s ouster as head of the Department of Homeland Security, in part out of unhappiness over her spending $220 million on an ad campaign that put her front and center in various rustic settings including shots of her on horseback. In the campaign, Noem “dressed up like Jesse from ‘Toy Story.’” Jost also went there on the allegations that Noem has had an intimate relationship with a Trump aide. “She’s so happy riding a horse. Bet his name is Corey Lewandowski.”
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