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9 August 2026<\/time>\n <\/p>\nMonica Barbaro has defended her A Complete Unknown co-star Timothee Chalamet following his controversial remarks about ballet earlier this year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nMonica Barbaro has defended Timothee Chalamet for his remarks about ballet and opera<\/p>\nThe 30-year-old actor sparked a backlash when he used opera and ballet as examples of art forms that “no one cares about” but Monica feels that the Marty Supreme star was coming from a place of “respect” with his remarks, particularly as his older sister Pauline is a trained ballet dancer.<\/p>\nThe One Night Only star told the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “You’re the first person to ask me about this.<\/p>\n“I can’t possibly know exactly where he was coming from when he said that, but one of the conversations we had on set was about his sister being a dancer, and he was actually saying it from a very hats-off, respect, kind of place.”<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\nMonica explained that she interpreted Timothee’s comments as being about the declining audiences for ballet and opera rather than as derogatory towards the art forms themselves.<\/p>\n\nThe 36-year-old actress said: “I feel like it was something where he was expressing something in a way that made it sound like it was about the respect for the art form, when really I think it is about audiences for that art form. And I do think audiences are dwindling for those kinds of art forms.”<\/p>\n\nMonica continued: “I don’t know that that’s what he was saying, but that’s my personal takeaway. I’m a Gemini. I try to see all sides. <\/p>\n\n“I think in a way, there is some truth to that statement in a way I would like to not lead with offence.”<\/p>\n\nChalamet made his controversial comments when asked if audiences are still interested in slower-paced movies during a Variety and CNN town hall with fellow actor Matthew McConaughey in February.<\/p>\n\nThe four-time Oscar nominee said: “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s like, ‘Hey! Keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.’<\/p>\n\n“All respect to the ballet and opera people out there.”<\/p>\n\nOther Hollywood stars have been critical of Chalamet’s remarks, with Charlize Theron branding them as “reckless”.<\/p>\n\nDuring an interview with The New York Times newspaper in April, The Odyssey star said: “Oh, boy, I hope I run into him one day. I feel like that was a very reckless comment on an art form, two art forms, that we need to lift up constantly because, yes, they do have a hard time. <\/p>\n\n“But in about 10 years, I think AI is going to be able to do Timothee\u2019s job, but it will not be able to replace a person on a stage dancing live. And we shouldn\u2019t s*** on other art forms. How about we start with that?”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9 August 2026 Monica Barbaro has defended her A Complete Unknown co-star Timothee Chalamet following his controversial remarks about ballet earlier this year. 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Monica Barbaro has defended her A Complete Unknown co-star Timothee Chalamet following his controversial remarks about ballet earlier this year.<\/p>\n
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Monica Barbaro has defended Timothee Chalamet for his remarks about ballet and opera<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old actor sparked a backlash when he used opera and ballet as examples of art forms that “no one cares about” but Monica feels that the Marty Supreme star was coming from a place of “respect” with his remarks, particularly as his older sister Pauline is a trained ballet dancer.<\/p>\n
The One Night Only star told the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “You’re the first person to ask me about this.<\/p>\n
“I can’t possibly know exactly where he was coming from when he said that, but one of the conversations we had on set was about his sister being a dancer, and he was actually saying it from a very hats-off, respect, kind of place.”<\/p>\n
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Monica explained that she interpreted Timothee’s comments as being about the declining audiences for ballet and opera rather than as derogatory towards the art forms themselves.<\/p>\n
\nThe 36-year-old actress said: “I feel like it was something where he was expressing something in a way that made it sound like it was about the respect for the art form, when really I think it is about audiences for that art form. And I do think audiences are dwindling for those kinds of art forms.”<\/p>\n
\nMonica continued: “I don’t know that that’s what he was saying, but that’s my personal takeaway. I’m a Gemini. I try to see all sides. <\/p>\n
\n“I think in a way, there is some truth to that statement in a way I would like to not lead with offence.”<\/p>\n
\nChalamet made his controversial comments when asked if audiences are still interested in slower-paced movies during a Variety and CNN town hall with fellow actor Matthew McConaughey in February.<\/p>\n
\nThe four-time Oscar nominee said: “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s like, ‘Hey! Keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.’<\/p>\n
\n“All respect to the ballet and opera people out there.”<\/p>\n
\nOther Hollywood stars have been critical of Chalamet’s remarks, with Charlize Theron branding them as “reckless”.<\/p>\n
\nDuring an interview with The New York Times newspaper in April, The Odyssey star said: “Oh, boy, I hope I run into him one day. I feel like that was a very reckless comment on an art form, two art forms, that we need to lift up constantly because, yes, they do have a hard time. <\/p>\n
\n“But in about 10 years, I think AI is going to be able to do Timothee\u2019s job, but it will not be able to replace a person on a stage dancing live. And we shouldn\u2019t s*** on other art forms. How about we start with that?”<\/p>\n
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9 August 2026 Monica Barbaro has defended her A Complete Unknown co-star Timothee Chalamet following his controversial remarks about ballet earlier this year. Monica Barbaro has defended Timothee Chalamet for his remarks about ballet and opera The 30-year-old actor sparked a backlash when he used opera and ballet as examples of art forms that “no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3070,1517,8921,1530],"class_list":{"0":"post-256504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-charlize-theron","9":"tag-matthew-mcconaughey","10":"tag-monica-barbaro","11":"tag-timothee-chalamet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}