Spielberg Celebrates Shared Arts Experience Amid Chalamet Ballet Controversy
Steven Spielberg, speaking at SXSW, praised the communal, theater-based experience of cinema and intriguingly linked it to ballet and opera while weighing in on Timothée Chalamet’s controversial jokes about those art forms. He urged that the feeling of shared immersion should endure, even as Chalamet’s remarks drew sharp backlash from figures like Whoopi Goldberg and Misty Copeland (with others defending him or the broader point about audiences and the arts).