Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Kardashians Call Depiction in ‘People v. OJ’ Ep 2 ‘Ridiculous’

Kardashian Kids in "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson"
Kardashian Kids in “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson”

*The Kardashian kids popped up in the first two episodes of “American Crime Story: The People vs O.J. Simpson,” and as previously reported, it won’t be the last.

But how do Rob, Kourtney, Khloe and Kim feel so far about the scenes involving their TV counterparts in real life?

In last week’s premiere, they were seen briefly from afar at Nicole Brown Simpson’s funeral. In this week’s episode, they were shoehorned into an unnecessary reaction shot as their father Robert Kardashian read his client’s suicide note during a live press conference.

Although the series is based on Jeffery Toobin’s book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson, executive producer Ryan Murphy has said that the series is “a drama, not a documentary,” so writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski took creative with certain scenes and conversations.

According to TMZ, Kardashian family sources say Kim felt the scene of them cheering their dad’s appearance at the press conference was “ridiculous,” adding that the sisters remember watching their father read the letter on TV, but stress that the cheering and chanting of their last name “never happened.”

Last week, Alexander and Karaszewski told Vulture that most of the scenes featuring the Kardashian kids were added to color the narrative.

Regarding a restaurant scene next week with the Kardashians, “Yes, [Robert Kardashian] did take his kids out to Chin Chin for Father’s Day on the Sunday after the Bronco chase. That is all true. We know that Robert Kardashian was not a man who sought the limelight,” Alexander explained, referencing a scene that will air in the third episode where Kardashian tells his children, “Fame is fleeting. It’s hollow. It means nothing at all without a virtuous heart.”

Kardashian kids with father Robert Kardashian
Kardashian kids Kim, Rob, Kourtney and Khloe with father Robert Kardashian

Regarding Tuesday’s episode, Alexander continued, “We do know that [attorney Robert Shapiro] pushed him in front of the TV cameras to read the suicide note that day, which was not something he was comfortable with. And we do know, hilariously, that the reporters afterwards said, ‘What’s your name? How do you spell it?’ It’s an unusual Armenian name, and he had to spell it out for them. We assume his four kids are all watching TV. They’re going to see their dad on TV and they’re going to be excited, like any kids would be.”

Here’s what Scott Alexander and Ryan Murphy told journalists at the TCA Winter Press Tour last month when asked if they feared scenes with the Kardashian kids would distract from the story:

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