Nathan Lane savagely shades Matthew McConaughey, Timothée Chalamet&x27;s &x27;stupidity&x27;: &x27;Terribly unfunny people&x27; Joey NolfiThu, March 12, 2026 at 4:16 PM UTC 20 Timothee Chalamet, Nathan Lane, Matthew McConaugheyCredit: Karwai Tang/WireImage; John Nacion/Getty; John Salangsang/Shutterstock Death of a Salesman revival star Nathan Lane is definitely not buying what Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet are selling.
Nathan Lane savagely shades Matthew McConaughey, Timothée Chalamet's 'stupidity': 'Terribly unfunny people'
Joey NolfiThu, March 12, 2026 at 4:16 PM UTC
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Timothee Chalamet, Nathan Lane, Matthew McConaugheyCredit: Karwai Tang/WireImage; John Nacion/Getty; John Salangsang/Shutterstock
Death of a Salesman revival star Nathan Lane is definitely not buying what Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet are selling.
Lane savagely slammed both actors during a Thursday morning appearance on The View, where moderator Whoopi Goldberg asked the Hollywood veteran to weigh in on the ongoing controversy that saw Chalamet — amid a town hall discussion with McConaughey — dismiss the popularity of art forms like opera and ballet.
"Oh, what a schmuck," Lane said, as comedian Joy Behar observed, "He opened his mouth. Poor guy. Leave him alone!"
Lane replied, further digging in on Chalamet: "It was kind of kaleidoscopic in its stupidity and insensitivity, and yet strangely telling about where we are in this country."
Joy Behar and Nathan Lane on 'The View'Credit: ABC
He added, with a nod toward his own filmography, "First of all, one should remember, people will be going to see Swan Lake and La Traviata long after someone at a dinner party says, 'Who was Timothée Chalamet?' It's the show business circle of life."
Lane posed that "the bigger question is, why was there a town hall meeting with Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet? Who deemed this meeting of the minds necessary?"
He then jabbed Donald Trump upon asking why there isn't "a town hall meeting with Democrats discussing how to get this lunatic out of the White House?"
Speaking on the subject of the Oscar-nominated Marty Supreme, which follows Chalamet as a hyper-competitive ping-pong player, Lane added: "I've got news for Timmy. If you think nobody cares about opera and ballet, I can't tell you how much we don't care about ping-pong."
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Lane issued a final criticism of both stars when he joked that "some weed was smoked beforehand" at their joint town hall.
"This may just be a tragic case of terribly unfunny people trying to be funny, which always ends in disaster," he finished.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for McConaughey and Chalamet for comment.
Timothée Chalamet in 'Marty Supreme'Credit: A24
Earlier this week, Goldberg and Sunny Hostin also criticized Chalamet for saying that "no one cares" about ballet and opera.
Hostin said that Chalamet's words were "vapid" and "shallow," while Goldberg advised him to "be careful, boy" about his words on other people's art — especially as he contends for Best Actor at the Oscars this Sunday.
In EW's annual Secret Ballot feature ahead of the Oscars, one anonymous actor told us that he "lost a lot of respect" for Chalamet amid the 30-year-old performer's comments: "F--- that guy," the actor said.
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