KIM KARDASHIAN LANDS HUGE NETFLIX ROLE IN FILM DIRECTED BY EVA LONGORIA DESPITE ALL'S FAIR FLOP
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Kim Kardashian has landed a huge new Netflix role in a film directed by Eva Longoria - following her TV series All's Fair flopping with critics and viewers.
The socialite and media personality, 45, will play a key character in the streaming platform's new comedy movie The Fifth Wheel.
Written by Paula Pell and Janine Brito, the premise follows a group of best friends from high school who try to reconnect during a weekend trip to Las Vegas.
Kim plays a 'hot outsider' who gatecrashes the experience - as the friends evaluate their own messy lives and questionable decisions.
According to Deadline, Brenda Song, Fortune Feimster and Nikki Glaser have signed up to star alongside Kim in The Fifth Wheel.
Kim also serves as an executive producer alongside co-writer Paula Pell and Will Ferrell, among others.
The Fifth Wheel was first announced in November 2023 and found its home at the streaming service a week later.
Eva, 50, was confirmed to be on board to direct the upcoming project by May 2025.
It comes as last month, Kim's legal drama series All's Fair was savaged by critics after its release on Disney+ and Hulu.
Created by Ryan Murphy of Glee and Scream Queens fame, it follows a glamourous all-female divorce firm in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, Kim receives top billing in the series and portrays the character Allura Grant.
Other cast members include Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson and Niecy Nash-Betts.
All's Fair earned a rarely seen 0% 'rotten' rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
The Times' Ben Dowell declared in his zero star review: 'This may be the worst TV drama ever' whilst USA Today's Kelly Lawler decided the drama was at the very least 'the worst TV show of the year.'
Many took aim at Kim, who also served as an executive producer, with Dowell writing: 'Does Kardashian make a convincing lawyer? No, she does not. She is to acting what Genghis Khan is to a peaceful liberal democracy.'
Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter writes that 'Kardashian's performance, stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, is exactly what the writing, also stiff and affectless without a single authentic note, merits.'
Lucy Mangan for The Guardian opened her review with the musing 'I did not know it was still possible to make television this bad... But I was wrong. All's Fair is terrible. Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.'
Viewer reaction wasn't any less scathing. After watching the pilot, many viewers were left baffled by Kim's prominent role in a series starring award-winning actresses.
Her performance was called 'stiff' and 'monotone' with another fan writing on X, 'Stop giving Kim Kardashian acting roles. She can't act I can't be the only one who is aware of this.'
'It's okay the show but really Kim Kardashian cannot act' another wrote.
'Why is Kim Kardashian getting this much work... she literally can't act.
'It is baffling to me how she can consistently work while there are much better and more deserving actresses who don't get to work as often.'
Despite the negative reception, it was later announced the show had been renewed for a second outing.
The bright news came as Kim revealed she did not pass the California bar which she took in July.
'Well...I'm not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV,' she began, referencing her role as Allura on All's Fair.
'Six years into this law journey, and I'm still all in until I pass the bar. No shortcuts, no giving up - just more studying and even more determination.'
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