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Misty Copeland fires back at Timothée Chalamet ballet, opera comments

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Ballerina Misty Copeland says actor Timothée Chalamet "wouldn't be an actor and have the opportunities he has as a movie star" if it were not for ballet or opera.The first Black female principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater fired back at the actor's recent comments made during a town hall last month with fellow actor Matthew McConaughey. The two were discussing keeping movie theaters alive when Chalamet appeared to dismiss the significance of ballet and opera, saying, "No one cares.""I don't want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.' All respect to all the ballet and opera people out there. I just lost 14 cents in viewership."Copeland said the actor should be uplifting all art forms instead of comparing them."There's a reason that the opera and ballet have been around over 400 years," Copeland said.…

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