Kim Kardashian: the queen of reality television wants to be a serious actress

The first time that Kim Kardashian had a job as an actress was in 2008.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
06 September 2023 Wednesday 16:32
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Kim Kardashian: the queen of reality television wants to be a serious actress

The first time that Kim Kardashian had a job as an actress was in 2008. Then she was a celebutante linked to the Paris Hilton universe who had just premiered a reality show, Keeping up with the Kardashians, on which an empire would be founded for all the members of the family. But that job was not exactly linked to prestige: it was Disaster Movie, a film that parodied disaster movies, and one of its jokes was seeing how she was unexpectedly killed by a meteorite. But, now that she is 42, she is more than “the daughter of O.J.'s lawyer.” Simpson” and she has a fortune valued at 1.7 billion dollars, she wants to really try her hand at acting. The trailer for American Horror Story: Delicate proves it.

If in How I Met Your Mother he had settled for an episodic role that was more of a stellar cameo than serious work, in the anthology horror series he has one of the main roles along with Emma Stone and Cara Delevingne. In fiction she is Siobhan Walsh, the right hand of a fashionable actress (Stone) who, after learning of her success and while seeking the Oscar, wants to fulfill her dream of having a child. But, when she gets pregnant, she soon has the feeling that something is not working. What is reality and what are your imaginations?

The season, which premieres in the United States on September 20 and is pending premiere on Disney Spain, has Halley Feiffer as the main creative director, who seeks to give a feminist perspective to the premise of The Devil's Seed and based on the novel Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine. But Kardashian's signing cannot be separated from Ryan Murphy, creator and producer of American Horror Story with Brad Falchuck. The man also behind productions such as Glee, American Crime Story, Nip/Tuck, Dahmer or The Vigilante is as much an admirer of Hollywood stars as he is of reality television and pop culture in general.

In the same way that he attracts stars like Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Penélope Cruz and Gwyneth Paltrow to his fictional universes, he also made reality star Nene Leakes (The Real Housewives of Atlanta) a professional comedy actress and gave the first interpretive opportunity for Lady Gaga, who debuted in American Horror Story: Hotel and later became a prestigious actress with A Star is Born, which allowed her to be nominated for an Oscar, House of Gucci or the sequel to Joker that should be released soon. It remains to be seen if Kim Kardashian will take advantage of this opportunity like the Poker Face singer.

The cast of AHS: Delicate is completed by Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife), franchise regulars such as Billie Lourd, Denis O'Hare and Leslie Grossman, and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner for Pose. While this season of American Horror Story, the eleventh, will have 10 episodes, for now it will broadcast only the first five. The cause? Murphy was able to continue filming while the writers' strike was called, claiming that he did not touch a single point of the scripts written for the season (and raising doubts among his colleagues), but he did have to paralyze the project when the union of actors, the SAG, also called its own strike in July.