Doja Cat Sounds Off On Timothée Chalamet Saying ‘No One Cares’ About Ballet & Opera

Doja Cat isn’t holding back her thoughts on Timothée Chalamet’s viral remarks about ballet and opera. The music star sounded off in a now-deleted TikTok that called out Timothée for saying in a recent CNN and Variety town hall with Matthew McConaughey that he doesn’t want to participate in either art form because “no one cares” about them. Doja is one of many who openly took issue with that take, pointing out that in addition to ballet and opera’s historic relevance there are plenty of people still appreciating them today. “Hey, by the way, opera is 400 years old, ballet is 500 years old,” she began, before purposely mispronouncing Timothée’s name when referencing what he’d said. “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,” Doja added. “There is an etiquette around opera. There is etiquette around ballet. It is amazing. It’s an amazing theater medium. It’s f—ing beautiful and people go there every day to the dance studio.” The recording artist went on to explain why she believes that Timothée’s perception of ballet and opera as currently unpopular is beside the point. “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. 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.” She signed off with a direct suggestion for the actor to reframe his thinking. “People give a f—. You show up in a nice outfit. You sit the f— down and shut the f— up. That’s the usual etiquette around those things. Maybe learn something from that.” Doja’s clip comes amid outrage from the ballet and opera communities, with the Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera both weighing in on social media as celebrities including Jamie Lee Curtis, Ashley Graham, Sarah Hyland and more have shared their public support. Timothée hasn’t publicly responded to the outcry as of March 9 and Access Hollywood has reached out to his reps for comment, but the situation has drawn new attention to his personal ties to ballet. A resurfaced clip of the Oscar nominee from his recent “Marty Supreme” press tour shows him noting that he grew up in the ballet world with multiple members of his immediate family working as professional dancers.