Charlize Theron joins the chorus of disapproval over Timothée Chalamet’s ballet comment | Movie

Actor and former ballet dancer Charlize Theron has joined the chorus of disapproval aimed at Timothée Chalamet over his comments that seem to have disrespect for artists of ballet and opera.

In an interview with the New York TimesTheron said, “Oh, boy, I hope I run into him one day,” adding, “It was a very reckless comment about two art forms that we have to constantly lift up because, yeah, they’re having a hard time. But in 10 years, AI is going to be able to do Timothée’s job, but it’s not going to be able to replace a human being dancing on a stage.”

Theron, who studied at the Joffrey as a teenager Ballet in New York before a knee injury prevented her from continuing the art form, she also commented on the physical price paid by dancers. “It taught me to be tough. It’s borderline abusive. There were several times I had blood infections from blisters that just never healed. And you don’t get a day off. I’m literally talking about bleeding through your shoes.”

Chalamet made the comments in February during a video interview with fellow actor Matthew McConaughey, in which he said: “I don’t want to work in ballet or opera … Things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even if nobody cares about this anymore.’ disapproval of Chalamet’s comments, while Italian film producer and opera director Luca Guadagnino, who played Chalamet in the 2017 film Call Me By Your Name, defended the actor.and says he did not “understand how one (single) comment can become a planetary polemic.”

In the interview, Theron also discussed her childhood and teenage years South Africaincluding her father’s death after being shot by her mother in self-defense. Theron described her father as a “full-blown functioning drunk” and said that her mother “sent me to boarding school specifically because she wanted me to get out of the house.”

She described in detail the day of the shooting, when her father came to their home in Benoni, near Johannesburg, in June 1991 and tried to break in. Theron recounts: “He shot through the steel doors to get in, which made it very clear that he was going to kill us… (My mother) came into my bedroom. The two of us held the door with our bodies because there was only a lock on it and he shot the door.” by. And that’s the crazy thing: not one bullet hit us.”

Theron added: “He walked over to the (gun) safe, and my mother opened the door … (and) she followed my father, who then opened the safe to get more weapons out, and she shot him.”

Theron’s mother, Gerda, was not prosecuted for the shooting South Africa’s attorney general ruled it was an act of self-defence. Theron said, “The next morning she sent me to school. She was just like, We’re going to move on. Not necessarily the healthiest thing, but it worked for us.”