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Kim Kardashian feared she’d “ruined” All’s Fair after it was branded “the worst television drama ever made” by critics.
The Ryan Murphy series – in which Kim stars as a divorce lawyer alongside Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Teyana Taylor and Glenn Close – debuted on Disney Plus late last year and it was dismissed as “what may well be the worst television drama ever made” by The Times newspaper while the Guardian called it “fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible”. Kim has now admitted she thought her casting in the series had led to the dire write-ups.
She told The Sunday Times Style magazine: “I am so used to it [criticism], I have a really thick skin. I mean, at the beginning, to the girls, my cast, I was like: ‘Wait, are we OK? Did I ruin everything?’
“And they were like: ‘Listen, we are OK.’ I didn’t realise that in the film business as well you get so much criticism.”
The cast is returning to TV with a second season and Kim has revealed the new episodes will focus more on comedy rather than trying to be a serious drama.
She said: “We had so much fun. We’ve just finished season two. We thought we were a bit more serious last year, but the audiences thought we were really comical, so we’ve leant into that.”
Kim also insisted she works hard on the show and is keen to learn.
She added: “I love stepping out of my comfort zone. I want to grow, learn and expand. It keeps me motivated, keeps me inspired.”
Kim’s co-star Sarah Paulson, 50, previously admitted she was disappointed by the negative reviews of All’s Fair but she still had a lot of fun making the show.
She told Variety: “Does anybody like to get reviews from the critics that are not stellar? No.
“It’s always a wild thing to put the thing you’ve been working on out into the world for people to determine its value.
“But I feel like what matters to me is the absolute unbridled joy and fun we have had making and promoting the show. There’s not a single thing or person in the world that could change that.”
All’s Fair has a three per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, a measurement of critical entertainment recommendation by professional critics, while it is rated at 66 per cent on the website’s Popcornmeter, which features audience reviews.
All’s Fair became the biggest Hulu Original scripted series premiere in three years, based on the first three days of streaming, and the critical disdain didn’t stop Disney Plus bosses giving the green light to series two, which is scheduled for release in November.
