SchadenFriday: A Timothée Chalamet Ballet Melee
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s Slate Plus exclusive, Timothée Chalamet enters the pas de deux between an Oscar-nominated actor and a public itching for a villain. But as one Gen Z star’s public approval goes down, another’s rises, on the strength of a “bixie.”
Guest: Nadira Goffe, Slate culture writer.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday Slatesters. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome back for another edition of Shadden Friday. |
| 0:07.4 | These are our Slate Plus exclusive conversations for when you really need to laugh at the news instead of cry. |
| 0:15.6 | And this week, I'm not going to lie, it's been rough. |
| 0:18.9 | So rough that this Friday, we are actually leaving the realm of hard news to get our laughs because I'm not going to lie, it's been rough. So rough that this Friday, we are actually leaving the realm of |
| 0:22.8 | hard news to get our laughs, because honestly, as poorly as things are going for the Trump |
| 0:26.9 | administration when it comes to the war in Iran, they are going very, very poorly, by the way. |
| 0:32.4 | Our military is messing with real lives and the global economy, and there is nothing funny |
| 0:37.3 | about that. |
| 0:38.7 | So luckily, when I want to escape the bad vibes, pretty much the entire Slate Newsroom has my back, |
| 0:43.8 | especially culture writer, Nadira Goff. Nadira, welcome to Shadden Friday. It is so great to see you. |
| 0:49.6 | Thank you for coming. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:52.0 | Okay, we've brought you in here to explain a controversy that is |
| 0:55.3 | haunting Oscar season because you may have forgotten that the Oscars are this weekend. This |
| 1:01.5 | weekend, Naderah, how are you watching? On Hulu, one of the streaming services. Oh, my God. It just |
| 1:08.7 | sounds grim when you say it like that. I don't know. |
| 1:10.8 | It feels grim. It feels grim. Okay. We're streaming. Okay. At least it's not hosted by an AI that could |
| 1:17.2 | happen. As far as I know, Conan O'Brien is not AI. Okay. This controversy is about |
| 1:24.7 | Timothy Shalmay, who seems to have gone from best actor favorite to public Oscars enemy number one. |
| 1:31.6 | Can you explain why? Also, am I pronouncing his name right? Is it Timote? |
| 1:36.5 | It is technically Timotay. No, it is not. Really? |
| 1:39.4 | It is. He's half French. It is. And he's fluent in French as well. But he's been very normal about it. People call him Timothy all the time. And he also refers to himself as Timothy sometimes. He accepts it. He accepts he's in America now. Exactly. We have rules here. I guess as any French American kid who grew up in New York would or should. Yeah, this has been a pretty controversial Oscars overall. |
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