Kim Kardashian’s Variety ‘clickbait’ cover BLASTED as ‘an insult to trained, hardworking actors’ like Chloe Sevigny: ‘Kim doesn’t belong in this space!’
Variety unveiled the cover of its Actors on Actors issue on Monday featuring Ryan Murphy favorites Kim Kardashian and Chloë Sevigny, and the reaction online was absolutely electric.
The Instagram The comments were filled to the brim with people outraged by the 43-year-old reality star’s inclusion alongside established theater makers like Jodie Foster, Robert Downey Jr., Naomi Watts, Quinta Brunson, Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Andrew Scott.
“The fact that you even used Kim K. tells us how desperate you are for clicks and how much contempt and disrespect you have for the profession,” Instagram user @actherstudios wrote.
‘What an insult to the many trained, hardworking actors who DO THE REAL WORK! To say this is embarrassing is an understatement.”
Instagram user @eypfifa shouted: ‘Kim K is not an actor! She doesn’t belong in this room!’
Variety unveiled the cover of its Actors on Actors issue on Monday featuring Ryan Murphy favorites Kim Kardashian (L) and Chloë Sevigny (R), and the reaction online was absolutely electric
“Seriously zero credibility with Kim K. What a joke Variety,” Instagram user @ladyberson wrote.
Instagram user @homomacabre chimed in: “Beyond disrespectful to Chloë.”
The 49-year-old Sevigny — who was nominated for an Oscar for Boys Don’t Cry and won a Golden Globe for HBO’s Big Love — reposted the cover of Variety with the short caption: “Always fun to be around. Thanks @variety.’
Meanwhile, Kim – who played Siobhan on FX’s American Horror Story: Delicate – launched her career in 2007 with a 41-minute sex tape titled Kim Kardashian, Superstar, which was released seven months before her E! Network reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered.
Kardashian’s sex tape partner Willie ‘Ray J’ Norwood claimed they both signed $400,000 contracts with Vivid Entertainment to release their ecstasy-fueled sexploits starting from her 22nd birthday in Cabo San Lucas in 2002 in a deal that was brokered by her mother Kris Jenner.
The SKIMS CEO has always maintained that a ‘third party’ sold her sex tape to Vivid, and she has reportedly dropped her invasion of privacy lawsuit against them after reportedly receiving a ‘$5 million settlement’ .
Kim’s interest in becoming a serious actress directly coincided with her giving up her dream of following in her late father Robert Kardashian’s footsteps and becoming a lawyer.
Kardashian- who Passed the ‘baby bar’ exam in 2021 after failing three times – originally intended to pass the California State Bar in 2023 without attending college or law school.
The Instagram comments were filled to the brim with people outraged by the 43-year-old reality star’s inclusion alongside established theater makers like Jodie Foster, Robert Downey Jr., Naomi Watts, Quinta Brunson, Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Andrew Scott.
The 49-year-old Sevigny — who was nominated for an Oscar for Boys Don’t Cry and won a Golden Globe for HBO’s Big Love — reposted the cover of Variety with the short caption: “Always fun to be around. Thank you @variety’
Kim – who played Siobhan in FX’s American Horror Story: Delicate (pictured) – launched her career in 2007 with a 41-minute sex tape titled Kim Kardashian, Superstar, which was released seven months before her E! Network reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered
Kardashian’s interest in becoming a serious actress directly coincided with her giving up her dream of following in her late father Robert Kardashian’s (M, pictured in 1995) footsteps and becoming a lawyer.
The aspiring criminal justice reform attorney — who passed the ‘baby bar’ exam in 2021 after failing three times — originally wanted to pass the California State Bar in 2023 without attending college or law school (photo in 2019)
Kim studied law 18 hours a week under the guidance of Van Jones, Jessica Jackson (L, photo in 2019) and Erin Haney (M) and dreamed of starting her own law firm and abolishing the death penalty
Instead of becoming a lawyer, Kardashian will pose as LA’s “most successful divorce lawyer” and lead “an all-female law firm” in a new legal drama from Brothers & Sisters creator Jon Robin Baitz, written by Hulu .
The thrice-divorced mother of four told producer Ryan Murphy (R) on last Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians, “I mean, there are so many fun moments even with something like [my attorney] Laura [Wasser] and I thought, “Don’t ever make me do this again!” Then the next one [divorce]she would say, “Hey, you reminded me last time: don’t ever let me do this again.”
Kim’s previous acting credits include PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, PAW Patrol: The Movie, Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, Drop Dead Diva, CSI: NY, Deep in the Valley, Beyond the Break and Disaster Movie
The aspiring criminal justice reform attorney used to study law 18 hours a week under Van Jones, Jessica Jackson and Erin Haney and dreamed of starting her own law firm and abolishing the death penalty.
Instead of becoming a lawyer, Kim will pose as LA’s “most successful divorce lawyer” and head “an all-female law firm” in a new legal drama written by Brothers & Sisters creator Jon Robin Baitz, according to the Hulu script .
“I mean, there are so many fun moments even with something like that [my attorney] Laura [Wasser] and I was like, “Don’t ever let me do this again!”, the thrice-divorced mother of four told producer Ryan Murphy on last Thursday’s episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians.
‘Then the next one [divorce]she would say, “Hey, you reminded me last time: don’t ever let me do this again.”‘
Kim’s previous acting credits include PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, PAW Patrol: The Movie, Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, Drop Dead Diva, CSI: NY, Deep in the Valley, Beyond the Break and Disaster Movie.
Kardashian also played herself in films Ocean’s Eight and Alligator Boots, as well as episodes of 2 Broke Girls, American Dad!, 30 Rock, Last Man Standing and Brothers.
The Calabasas socialite is currently an executive producer and stars in the 10-episode fifth season of The Kardashians, which airs Thursday on Hulu.
On February 19, the spinoff Keeping Up with the Kardashians won reality show of the year at the People’s Choice Awards after taking home the trophy for best docu-reality series at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards.
