Whoopi Goldberg had some words for Timothée Chalamet after he said that “no one cares” about ballet and opera.
During the latest episode of The View on Monday, March 9, Goldberg slammed the actor’s comments.
“When you crap on somebody else’s art form, it doesn’t feel good. It doesn’t feel good to see,” she said.
Goldberg then shared how Chalamet seemed not to really care about her offensive his words were
“And you probably didn’t realize that until you said, ‘Oh, I’m in trouble,’ but then you compounded it and said, like, ‘14 cents,’ said Goldberg. “No, when people get mad, it’ll be a lot more than 14 cents.”
“So be careful,” Goldberg continued. “I’m just saying. Be careful, boy.”
Following the audience’s response, Goldberg explained her choice of calling Chalamet “boy.”
He is a boy to me. He’s a boy to me. So no disrespect. And, really, don’t apologize when you’ve insulted, because it doesn’t sound right. You know, you can’t say, ‘Oh, this is dumb, no disrespect….’ That’s absolute disrespect.”
Sunny Hostin expressed how much she was “offended and disappointed” by Chalamet’s comments, as a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem.”
“I didn’t realize that he was that vapid and that shallow,” Hostin said.
Sara Haines said that maybe he has an issue with his family because his “grandmother, mother, and sister all danced in the New York City Ballet.”
“But I also feel like this is a good example of where people are so American culture-centric. Like, these are international art forms,” Haines said.
Chalamet made the remarks during a Variety and CNN town hall last month. He said that he does not “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.’ ”
Many called out Chalamet for his comments, including Doja Cat.
“It doesn’t matter if the industry is having a tough 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,” Doja said in a now-deleted TikTok post. “Doesn’t mean people don’t care about it. People care. The dancers care, the singers care, the audience cares. There’s still an audience.