Emma Roberts calls ‘AHS: Fragile’ costar Kim Kardashian a ‘pro’

Kim Kardashian made an equally big splash behind the scenes American Horror Story: Fragile As she did on screen.

“I mean, she’s amazing. She’s a pro,” Kardashian’s costar Emma Roberts Gushed in an interview with Extra On Tuesday, January 23. “She’s one of the most prepared people I’ve ever worked with, and she’s just chill. I love her very much.”

Kardashian, 43, stars in Season 12 of the FX horror anthology as Roberts’ Anna Victoria Alcott’s best friend and publicist Siobhan Corbin. The season follows Anna, an actress whose career takes off at the same time she discovers she is pregnant. Instead of reveling in her pregnant bliss, Anna fears that something sinister is conspiring to prevent her dreams of motherhood from coming true.

Last month, Roberts praised the series co-creator Ryan Murphy to cast Kardashian in the new season, which returns for its second installment this year. “When Ryan called me and said, ‘Kim Kardashian is playing your publicist,’ I was like, ‘You just surpassed genius status,'” the actress shared in December 2023. Grazia USA Cover story. “I just thought it was so brilliant.”

Roberts noted that it was Murphy’s “gift” for “taking things in people that they don’t see in themselves and putting them in roles that no one else would put them in,” adding, “He did this for me, and he did this for Kim.” So smartly done in the season.

Kardashian was announced to be joining the cast of season 12 AHS In April 2023. “Kim is really excited for such an amazing opportunity to be cast in this AHS. It’s truly an honor because she’s working alongside some of the most talented people in one of the most talented franchises in particular,” a source told EXCLUSIVELY. Us weekly At that time. “She was a little nervous about taking on such an important project, (but) she knew it was something she couldn’t pass up.”

Tea The Kardashians The star made it AHS Debuted in the show’s September 2023 season premiere, during which she uttered the NSFW first line. “Then tell Daniels to suck my s-t. She’s not missing a press day for an af-king commercial shoot,” Siobhan declared before pointing to Anna, “Being better than everyone else is exhausting.”

Kardashian has said some of the more offensive lines in the first half of AHS: Fragile, including one that makes fun of her Don’t worry darling‘s infamous 2022 press tour drama. “We are going to draw a wild card. as Olivia Wilde,” Siobhan told Anna after fainting during an awards show. “Don’t mention what happened and wait until everyone asks and they feel like they forgot to slash the low-key gaslight that’s the problem. Because, you know, racism.”

While fans wait for the new AHS: Fragile episodes to premiere, Kardashian has already booked a handful of new acting gigs. Netflix confirmed in November 2023 that Kardashian would produce and star in the female-centric comedy film. The fifth wheel. A month later, it was revealed that Kardashian would team up with Murphy, 58, for a new Hulu legal drama, which she would star in and executive produce.