Chalamet’s comment that “no one cares about” ballet or opera continues to cause a stir
NEED TO KNOW
- The New York Public Library’s Library of the Performing Arts shared a clip to Instagram of a young Timothée Chalamet appearing in a ballet production of Romeo & Juliet
- He can be seen in a leotard and wings among other ballet performers onstage
- The throwback moment from the library’s archive follows Chalamet’s controversial comment in a Feb. 24 conversation that “no one cares about” ballet or opera
Ballet has always been a part of Timothée Chalamet’s life.
In a clip shared to Instagram by the New York Library of the Performing Arts on Tuesday, March 17, the Oscar nominee can be seen participating in a ballet production. At apparently 6 years old, Chalamet can be seen in a leotard and cupid-like wings, hoisting a bow as if about to shoot an arrow.
The “little archival moment for” Chalamet, now 30, shows a moment from when he “took the stage in the ballet Romeo & Juliet, choreographed by Jacques d’Amboise, captured here in footage preserved at NYPL’s Library for the Performing Arts,” the post’s caption read.
“From ballet to opera and beyond, the Library for the Performing Arts is home to recordings, photographs, programs, and archives documenting the performing arts,” the caption continued…