Nathan Lane, who famously played an obsessive Maria Callas fan in Terrence McNally’s play The Lisbon Traviata, had some harsh words for the opera- and ballet-bashing Timothée Chalamet on today’s The View.
“Oh, what a schmuck,” Lane shot when moderator Whoopi Goldberg asked his thoughts about Chalamet’s CNN town hall comment that “no one cares about” ballet and opera anymore.
With mock seriousness, Lane continued, “You know, one doesn’t want to give this more attention than it deserves. And yet, and yet, it was kind of kaleidoscopic in its stupidity and insensitivity yet strangely telling about where we are in this country.”
And then…and then: “First of all, one should remember people will be going to see Swan Lake and La Traviata long after someone at a dinner party says, ‘Who was Timothée Chalamet?’ It’s the show business circle of life.
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