Celebrity attention economist and pants merchant Kim Kardashian isn’t really an actor, and it would be unfair to judge her on this niche skill at this stage in her career.
In All’s Fair (Disney+), the new drama in which she stars, it’s fair to say she operates as a sort of special effect for others to act nearby, much like the twister in the film Twister or Jaws in the film Jaws or the smiley-faced sun in Teletubbies. (She does indeed have the windy braggadocio of a twister, the blank eyes of a shark and the luminescent geometry of a chortling daystar.)
Because Kardashian’s primary acting style is basically “existing”, her extremely talented co-stars Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Glenn Close and Sarah Paulson must, in contrast, gurn and emote and gesticulate in a style of acting that experts call “very lucrative”.
I’m fine with that, because All’s Fair asks the big questions. Questions such as: what if, instead of writing books, feminist firebrands Shulamith Firestone and Andrea Dworkin set up a special law pract
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