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What he's doing started off a gazillion years ago with opera and with ballet.

And so if you don't understand that history, how can you have respect for your craft?

You want people to respect what you do and give you praise and awards and accolades.

You don't have respect for what other people do, the grind, the grind that a ballerina puts in every single day on that bar, doop, doop, doop, up and down.

The opera singers, what they put themselves through.

And look, do I love the opera?

No.

I've been to the opera several times and I left halfway through because I also found it to be a little bit boring.

But I would never trash the opera as if it's some less than art form, as if I'm better in any way than opera.

And I think Timothee Chalamet probably feels he's in these big budget movies.

He's Hollywood famous.

He's better than the ballerinas and the opera singers and they're calling him out.

So one opera singer, Isabel Leonard, she said, honestly, I'm shocked that someone so seemingly successful can be so ineloquent and narrow-minded in his views about art while considering himself an artist, as I would only imagine one would as an actor.

To take cheap shots at fellow artists, says more in this interview than anything else he could say, shows a lot about his character.

Now,

A Canadian mezzo-soprano Deepa Jani added in another comment, what a disappointing take.

There's nothing more impressive than the magic of live theater.

We should be trying to uplift these art forms, these artists, and come together about disciplines to do that.

The impact of these mediums are long, long-lasting and life-changing.

Thank you.