Doja Cat Takes Back Timothée Chalamet Criticism and Says ‘I’ve Never Been to a Ballet’ or Opera: My Outrage Was ‘Virtue Signaling… a Way to Garner Clicks, Likes, Approval’

Doja Cat is walking back her criticism of Timothée Chalamet amid the continued outrage over his dissing of opera and ballet. The “Marty Supreme” Oscar nominee told Matthew McConaughey during “A celebrity.land & Variety Town Hall Event” that he didn’t want movie theaters to go the way of “ballet or opera,” where artists want to “keep this thing alive” even though “no one cares” about those art forms anymore.

Grammy winner Doja Cat originally chided Chalamet in a since-deleted TikTok post, telling him that “people give a fuck” about opera and ballet. She explained: “Hey, by the way, opera is 400 years old, ballet is 500 years old. Somebody named Tim-oh-tay Cha-lam-et had the nerve — big guy, by the way — had the nerve to say, on-camera, that nobody cares about it… You show up in a nice outfit. You sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. That’s the usual etiquette around those things.