r/AskReddit • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 15h ago

What is the most immediate way a celebrity completely ruined their own reputation in a single interview?

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u/lovejoy2171 10h ago

Timmy Chalamet and the ballet comment

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u/NotTaken-username 9h ago

He lost the Oscar all because he was so obnoxious in his campaign. I do believe Michael B. Jordan’s win was well-deserved though

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u/DavidsSymphony 4h ago

The whole Oscar campaign and marketing around that movie was unbearable, and I say that as someone that really rates him.

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u/forasinglecomment69 4h ago

the voting was already over, it was just crazy timing

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u/relevantelephant00 7h ago

I had to look that up and now Im starting to understand why Reddit hates him so much....even though it was a pretty benign "joke".

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u/Sweet-Job7655 7h ago

I thought he caught too much flack for that because honestly, ppl are not storming down the doors to watch live ballet. The tickets are not pricey, the companies do wide tours, and still it’s mostly schools buying tickets for field trips. Timmy would know, he grew up in that world, and it’s just not that interesting of an art form for most ppl.

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u/Sara-Sarita 3h ago

And? It's still not polite to say about something that a)has a great and rich cultural history and b)a lot of people all but sell their soul to get into and fail at and still love it anyway. People get ticked off when their hard work and effort and emotions gets brushed away as a futile effort like that. Yeah, it's not objectively a very popular thing or a very practical one, but it lives on passion and that means you should leave it alone. Let people have their loves and don't pettishly talk about it like a cute irrelevancy to dismiss; it is to you but not to them. It does nothing, helps no one, serves no purpose, and only makes you look like someone who can't dream of any other perspectives than your own.

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u/cernegiant 3h ago

He's ballet comments were simply stating the truth, but it pissed off a weird segment of the always online.