Kim Kardashian is open to trying an accent

In her Actors on Actors interview with Chloë Sevigny, Kardashian spoke about channeling Kris and Kourtney for American Horror Story and her upcoming legal drama

By Emma Keates  |  June 5, 2024 | 5:33pm
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When Kim Kardashian was announced as one of the participants in Variety’s annual Actors on Actors series, people were rather less than pleased, to say the least. “‘actors on actors’ and yet there’s only one in the room……..” read one popular tweet reacting to the reality star being paired with Chloë Sevigny. “actors on actors with no challengers cast no the bear cast NOTHING they want us to suffer,” read another.

But in her actual interview, which the outlet released today, Kardashian set out to prove the haters wrong by saying she’d be “open” to doing an accent because she “find[s] my voice is so just distinct and annoying.” And what is accent work but capital-A Acting? Suck it, haters!

Doing an accent would genuinely be a new frontier for Kardashian, at least in her current, Ryan Murphy-sponsored acting era. (Don’t worry, we didn’t forget about Disaster Movie.) In the Variety conversation, she also spoke about how both of her Murphy-verse roles so far—a high-powered publicist in the latest season of American Horror Story and a high-powered divorce attorney in an upcoming, untitled legal drama—allowed her to accentuate important parts of her life.

“It’s funny, I was really channeling my sister Kourtney and someone that I work with. And everyone, when it came out, they were like, ‘That is Kris Jenner all the way,’” she said of her AHS: Delicate character, Siobhan. “I was like, ‘I guess I had that preparation already, but it’s not what I was thinking.’ But I so see it now.”

While Delicate allowed Kardashian to tap into her influencer roots, her role in Murphy’s upcoming legal drama is also deeply personal. “I’m really excited about it. And, again, that confidence that he believes in me to take this project on means so much to me. And it feels so right as a character that I could be a lawyer in real life and play one on TV.” Plus, “lawyer talk is a completely different language,” so she kind of has some accent practice already!

In all seriousness, Kardashian’s on-set work isn’t as obviously bad as everyone seems to think it is. In a write-up of her American Horror Story performance, The A.V. Club’s Saloni Gajjar called Kardashian’s turn “surprisingly promising” and wished that “the quirky writing” didn’t insist on “turning Kardashian into a vessel for provocative one-liners.” Hopefully, the legal drama will give her some slightly more thoughtful material to chew on.

 
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