Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Why Oscars season in Trumpworld makes us so mad
Salon.com: Chalamet’s words were curt, but his opinion was only further muddled by the clip being spread out of context. Chalamet, who has multiple family members who have performed in the New York City Ballet, was attempting to make a point about the accessibility of his art. He wants his work to be seen by the largest number of people possible for the price of a movie ticket, instead of having his efforts hidden behind the barrier of entry that comes with the higher cost of seeing opera or ballet.
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Timothee Chalamet has always been pretentious but somehow he gets more and more pretentious each and every time he opens his mouth. One could interpret what he’s saying to mean that he wants art to be accessible for the sake of audience members, but really what it seems like he’s saying is that he’d rather be in a movie than a ballet or an opera because HE would be easier to be seen by more people. I think this shows how he prefers to make art to show himself, while some people prefer to make art to serve an audience. There are places for both approaches. However, even if he’s not actually just trying to get himself on screen in front of a lot of people and he actually values the accessibility of art, I wouldnt even say that the movies he’s in are very accessible. They’re kind of elite, pretentious, and unenjoyable for the average person. Those are my two cents and I’m glad Michael B. Jordan won the Oscar.
This is a crazy article title, but unfortunately it’s true. And I don’t even know if Chalamet was going the “all press is good press” route. I think he just said something that I (and many other people) disagree with. What I really disagree with is the “point he was trying to make.” If what he really cared about was accessibility of art, he would’ve just said that. He wouldn’t have said “no one cares about ballet or opera anymore.” I also don’t even know that he was doing this for viewership. I just think that he really doesn’t care. I agree that we live in a “Trumpworld,” but I think that there’s a lot more nuance to public statements than that. It is interesting about the “bad press” line as it relates to the La La Land/Moonlight scandal. That was undeniably bad press - it did nothing to help along the Oscars at all, instead disparaging it.
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