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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTimoth\u00e9e Chalamet may have faced serious backlash over his Ballet and Opera comment, but it seems his opinion has done something better for these art forms. It is evident because in a recent interview, the chief of London\u2019s Royal Ballet and Opera, Alex Beard, has thanked Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet for giving an \u201cimmediate boost\u201d to their ticket sales. <\/p>\n Speaking to the Times, the RBO head, Alex Beard, called the public reaction \u201cjust fantastic\u201d and said he was pleased his organisation had not followed similar institutions in rebuking Chalamet.\u201cI thought it important that we didn\u2019t issue a kind of hoity-toity response to Chalamet,\u201d he said. \u201cWe simply said, \u2018Take a look at what we\u2019re doing, mate,\u2019 for instance, the fact that the largest portion of our audience by age is 20 to 30-year-olds.\u201cAnd you know what? Our post got two and a half million engagements and half a million shares, just on Instagram. And our ticket sales got an immediate boost. So cheers, Timmy!\u201d<\/p>\n The RBO head\u2019s reaction comes after \u2018Marty Supreme\u2019 star expressed his opinion in February during a conversation with Matthew McConaughey, which later faced severe backlash. At the time, the Oscar-nominated actor, who was promoting his film, expressed his relief that he was working in cinema, rather than opera or ballet, \u201cwhere it\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this any more.\u2019\u201dChalamet, whose mother and grandmother worked in ballet, swiftly added: \u201cAll respect to all the ballet and opera people out there.\u201d Days later, Chalamet\u2019s comment became one of the most controversial moments of his career and received serious public backlash. <\/div>\nRBO head thanks Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
The reaction comes after Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s controversial comment <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n