The uproar over Timothée Chalamet‘s comments on opera and ballet may have died down, but the star’s Call Me by Your Name director has belatedly come to his defense.
Luca Guadagnino spoke to Italian daily La Stampa over the weekend ahead of the premiere of his adaptation of John Adams’ 1991 opera, The Death of Klinghoffer, in Florence.
The filmmaker, whose gay 2017 age-gap romance threw Chalamet into the mainstream and earned him his first Oscar nomination, touched on the 30-year-old’s viral faux pas earlier this year, where he said “no one really cares” about ballet or opera. (Such was the public ire around his statement that it was Conan O’Brien’s opening quip at March’s Academy Awards.)
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Guadagnino, conceded that the star “could have spared himself.” Translated from Italian, he told La Stampa: “I am not on social media and
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