If you followed Chalamet’s Marty Supreme press tour, this seems pretty on brand for Chalamet. There was something strange, almost hubristic about the way the actor campaigned for the film: saying the role of an artist was akin to that of an athlete, talking about “the pursuit of greatness” and wanting to be “one of the greats” in his 2025 SAG Awards speech. The campaign for Marty Supreme was, no doubt, characterised by drive and ambition, but most discernibly, it underscored a new, rugged kind of masculine persona for Chalamet, far from the gentle, boyish masculinity of his earlier films like Call Me by Your Name and Little Women. If this contrarian, tough persona is what he believes will bring him closer to this goal of winning an Oscar, maybe the events of the last couple of weeks, in addition to his BAFTA and Actors Awards snubs, will force him to recalibrate.
Chalamet’s comment may have riled up the entire ballet and opera community alongside its patrons and those who realise the arts are under attack from AI, but he is hardly the first man to put his foot in his mouth. And it’s unlikely he will be the last. Just look at the audacious breed of men that podcasts have birthed. With the format rewarding conversational ease and confidence, it has taken away the remaining discernment that men could—and should—exercise while speaking. A little more than a month ago, Jason Bateman, on his podcast SmartLess, asked Charli XCX how many kids she wanted, to which she replied, “I actually don’t really want to have kids,” before continuing, “That could change. I love the fantasy of having a child, like naming it sounds so fun. But that is exactly a sign to me as to why I should not have one; the fact that that feels like the coolest part about it. Maybe I’m not ready.” Bateman should have taken this as his cue to move on to the next topic, but instead he chimed in with an anecdote: “My wife did not want to have kids, so the story goes. She said once we started going out, she thought, ‘Okay, I think I can have a kid with this guy.’ So you might find somebody.” Charli, who wed The 1975 drummer George Daniel in July last year, deadpanned, “Well, I’m married.” Not only did Bateman not consider it incredibly rude to get into child planning with a woman 24 years his junior, he also did not bother to do the most cursory of Google searches on a guest he had invited to his podcast.
A recently surfaced clip from Nikhil Kamath’s WTF podcast episode starring Tanmay Bhat, Prajakta Koli, Ranveer Allahbadia and Nuseir Yassin, which aired in November 2023, shows Kamath asking Yassin, “Right now, has it become cool to say pro-Palestinian stuff?”. Yassin affirms this by saying, “It’s become cool,” resorting to the tired whatabouttery of it being a “complicated conflict.” To conflate a genocide with social media fame while sitting on a podcast with people whose only credibility is that they have fame and a platform is ridiculous at best, and dangerous at worst.
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