Luca Guadagnino Defends Timothée Chalamet Amidst Ballet and Opera Controversy
Director Luca Guadagnino has partially defended Timothée Chalamet following the actor's viral comments comparing theatrical moviegoing to ballet or opera.
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Luca Guadagnino defends Timothée Chalamet over opera and ballet remarks: ‘How can one comment become a planetary polemic?’
The director, who cast Chalamet in 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, spoke out in the actor’s defence ahead of the premiere of his staging of opera The Death of Klinghoffer The director Luca Guadagnino has defended Timothée Chalamet after the actor drew criticism for suggesting that ballet and opera were art forms about which “no one cares about” any more. Speaking to Italian newspaper La Stampa ahead of the premiere of his staging of the opera The Death of Klinghoffer in Florence, the director sa...
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Luca Guadagnino has – at least partly – come to Timothée Chalamet’s defense regarding the “Marty Supreme” star’s viral comments that he didn’t want theatrical moviegoing to end up like the “ballet or opera.” The Italian director did so just as he prepares to open his rendition of U.S. composer John Adams’ 1991 opera “The Death […]
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"I don’t understand how one comment can become a planetary polemic," the Italian filmmaker has said in a new interview as he prepares to premiere his rendition of John Adams' 1991 opera 'The Death of Klinghoffer' in Italy.
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