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Skip to ContentNewsDoja Cat Weighs In On Timothée Chalamet’s Disrespectful Opera QuipBy Abby Jones9:33 AM EDT on March 9, 2026Share on FacebookShare on RedditShare on EmailShare on BlueskyFrazer Harrison/Getty Images Timothée Chalamet is in trouble with opera and ballet fans. Recently the actor, who's up for the Best Actor Oscar this weekend for his role in Marty Supreme, had this to say during a Variety town hall with Matthew McConaughey: "I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore.' All respect to the ballet and opera people out there." Opera singers and ballet companies around the world have since clapped back at Chalamet for those comments, and now you can count Doja Cat among opera's defenders.In a since-deleted TikTok, Doja Cat had some words for Chalamet, purposefully mispronouncing his name. She said:Hey, by the way, opera is 400 years old. Ballet is 500 years old. Somebody named Timothée Chalamet, big guy, by the way, had the nerve to say on camera that nobody cares about it. I’m sure you can walk into an opera theater right now, seats will be filled out, and nobody’s saying a word as the performance is going because everybody has that much respect for it. There is an etiquette around opera. There is etiquette around ballet. It’s amazing. It’s an amazing theater medium. It’s fucking beautiful.People go there every day to the dance studio. Dancers show up 8 a.m., 6 a.m. whatever the fuck, they show up, and they break and they bleed every single day, just because they have respect for it. They love it, they love what they do. It doesn’t matter if the industry is having a tough time at any time, at any time, which a lot of industries have a tough time. Your industry has a tough time. My industry has a tough time. Doesn’t mean people don’t care about it. People care. Dancers care. The singers care. The audience cares. There’s still an audience. People give a fuck. You show up in a nice outfit, you sit the fuck down and you shut the fuck up. That’s the usual etiquette around those things. Maybe learn something from that.Doja Cat comments on what Timothée Chalamet had said about ballet and opera recently. pic.twitter.com/Z2Gu1bXefd— Doja HQ (@DojaHQs) March 8, 2026Chalamet has yet to respond to the feedback, likely because, as SNL's Colin Jost pointed out over the weekend, he's currently promoting his movie about ping pong. Good luck at the Oscars, Timmy! @hotmendaily it reached snl lol #snl #weekendupdate #timotheechalamet #popculture #fyp ♬ original sound - hotmendaily @stereogum Isabel Leonard, Deepa Johnny, and Seán Tester are among the opera singers who’ve clapped back at Timothée Chalamet after his latest diss of the art form went viral. Meanwhile the English National Opera, the Royal Ballet And Opera, the Seattle Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera have all shared posts imploring Timmy Tim to visit. Luckily for Chalamet, his most recent comments went viral after Oscar voting ended, so they won't hurt his Best Actor chances. It's a tight race between the ‘Marty Supreme’ lead and ‘Sinners’ star Michael B. Jordan, whose thoughts on opera remain unclear. #TimotheeChalamet #opera #ballet ♬ original sound - stereogum Share on FacebookShare on RedditShare on EmailShare on BlueskyAbby Jones@abbyfjones_Read More:Colin Jost,Doja Cat,Timothée ChalametGET THE STEREOGUM DIGESTThe week's most important music stories and least important music memes.EmailSign upMore from NewsExplore NewsNewsWoman Arrested After Allegedly Firing Shots At Rihanna’s HomeMarch 9, 2026NewsOpera Community Claps Back At Timothée ChalametMarch 8, 2026NewsJoseph “Country Joe” McDonald Dead At 84March 8, 2026NewsPunch The Monkey Visited By Fellow CelebrityMarch 8, 2026NewsSNL: Harry Styles Upstages Ryan Gosling, Gorillaz Play “Clint Eastwood”March 8, 2026NewsMichael Stipe Sings R.E.M.’s “These Days” & “The Great Beyond” For The First Time In 18 YearsMarch 7, 2026