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Timothée Chalamet has managed to annoy an entire corner of the arts world with one throwaway line about ballet and opera. In a recent CNN & Variety town‑hall conversation with Matthew McConaughey, he was talking about why he still cares about getting people into cinemas when he said he doesn’t want to end up working in “dying” art forms that are constantly being propped up. The clip doing the rounds shows him saying he wouldn’t want to be in “ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, k