Steven Spielberg Says Ballet and Opera Are Just Like Moviegoing Amid Timothée Chalamet Controversy: ‘We Want’ Them to ‘Go Forever’

Steven Spielberg is the latest celebrity to weigh in on Timothée Chalamet’s hotly debated comments about ballet and opera.

Spielberg was speaking about the importance of movie theaters during a SXSW keynote conversation when he made the jab. After saying that he values streaming and enjoys working with Netflix, he added, “But for me, the real experience comes when we can influence a community to congregate in a strange, dark space where all of us are strangers. At the end of a really good movie experience, we are all united with a whole bunch of feelings that we walk into the daylight with, or into the nighttime with. And there’s nothing like that. It happens in movies, and in concerts. And it happens in ballet and opera, by the way.”

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Spielberg grinned as the audience broke out into laughter and cheers. “And we want that to be sustained,” he continued. “We want that to go forever.”

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