United Kingdom, March 8 -- The Metropolitan Opera and London's Royal Ballet and Opera have hit out at Timothee Chalamet after he declared "no one cares" about their arts.

The Marty Supreme actor recently took part in a conversation with his Interstellar co-star at the University of Texas and caused upset when he dismissed both ballet and opera while discussing the trend of movies placing their "biggest action set pieces up front.

Citing Frankenstein as an example of a popular movie that could "pull people in" without "extraordinarily fast" pacing, Timothee said: "It does take you having to wave a flag of, 'Hey, this is a serious movie,' or something, and some people do want to be entertained and quickly.

"I'm really right in the middle...