“Jeopardy!” took aim at Timothée Chalamet for his controversial comments about ballet and opera.
The game show dissed the Oscar nominee on Monday by sharing an Instagram clip of three past contestants taking on a “Ballet & Opera” category.
The players, Abigail, Ryan and Dondi, easily got all five questions in the category correct.
“NOBODY @ HIM 👀,” the show captioned the video, adding a hashtag for Chalamet’s name.
Fans flooded the comments section reacting to the epic diss.
“You know you did wrong when Jeopardy is throwing shade at you,” one Instagram user wrote.
“What is: shadeeeeeee 👏,” another fan quipped.
Someone else said, “Jeopardy to the arts: I got your back.”
“My favorite part is how much it proves him wrong because they ALL answered at least one of them,” a fourth person pointed out.
A different fan thanked the game show “for this petty clapback on behalf of the opera and ballet community!”
Chalamet, 30, sparked backlash for dissing ballet and opera during a town hall with Matthew McConaughey that aired on CNN on Feb. 21.
After explaining it’s important to keep movie theaters going, he noted that he didn’t “want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s like, ‘Hey! Keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.’”
“All respect to the ballet and opera people out there … I just lost 14 cents in viewership. I’m taking shots for no reason,” Chalamet added.
His comments received immediate backlash including from The Royal Ballet and Opera, who said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter that “ballet and opera have never existed in isolation.”
The women of “The View” weighed in on the drama too, with Sonny Hostin calling Chalamet “vapid” and “shallow.”
Whoopi Goldberg, meanwhile, said that the young actor should “be careful.”
“You probably didn’t realize, until you said, ‘Oh, I’m in trouble,’ but then you compounded it, and said, ’14 cents’ — no, when people get mad, it’ll be a lot more than 14 cents,” the EGOT winner stated.
Chalamet previously rallied against the ballet and opera back in 2019.
He called the talents “a dying art form” at the time.
Chalamet is up for an Academy Award this Sunday for his starring role in “Marty Supreme.”
Voting closed before his controversial comments went viral.
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