Doja Cat Weighs In On Timothée Chalamet’s Disrespectful Opera Quip

Timothée Chalamet is in trouble with opera and ballet fans. Recently the actor, who's up for the Best Actor Oscar this weekend for his role in Marty Supreme, had this to say during a Variety town hall with Matthew McConaughey: "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 anymore.' All respect to the ballet and opera people out there." Opera singers and ballet companies around the world have since clapped back at Chalamet for those comments, and now you can count Doja Cat among opera's defenders.

In a since-deleted TikTok, Doja Cat had some words for Chalamet, purposefully mispronouncing his name. She said:

Hey, by the way, opera is 400 years old. Ballet is 500 years old. Somebody named Timothée Chalamet, big guy, by the way, had the nerve to say on camera that nobody cares about it. I’m sure you can walk into an opera theater right now, seats will be filled out, and nobody’s saying a word as the performance is going because everybody has that much respect for it. There is an etiquette around opera. There is etiquette around ballet. It’s amazing. It’s an amazing theater medium. It’s fucking beautiful.

People go there every day to the dance studio. Dancers show up 8 a.m., 6 a.m. whatever the fuck, they show up, and they break and they bleed every single day, just because they have respect for it. They love it, they love what they do. It doesn’t matter if the industry is having a tough time at any time, at any time, which a lot of industries have a tough time. Your industry has a tough time. My industry has a tough time. Doesn’t mean people don’t care about it. People care. Dancers care. The singers care. The audience cares. There’s still an audience. People give a fuck. You show up in a nice outfit, you sit the fuck down and you shut the fuck up. That’s the usual etiquette around those things. Maybe learn something from that.

Chalamet has yet to respond to the feedback, likely because, as SNL's Colin Jost pointed out over the weekend, he's currently promoting his movie about ping pong. Good luck at the Oscars, Timmy!