Kim Kardashian’s ‘Actors on Actors’ Partner ‘Called in Sick’ at Last Minute, Editor Says

After the viral interview between Kim Kardashian and Chloë Sevigny, it has been revealed the pairing was not in the original plan.
Amid all the chatter over Chloë Sevigny and Kim Kardashian’s Actors on Actors pairing, the plot has thickened with a bit of breaking tea from Variety co-Editor-in-Chief Ramin Setoodeh.

During an appearance on Meghan McCain’s podcast, Citizen McCain, the journalist revealed that Sevigny was not actually meant to pair with Kardashian originally.

“Kim Kardashian had someone else that she was supposed to pair with,” Setoodeh said, “and that actor that she was supposed to pair with called in sick on a Friday night, and Kim was supposed to do this on a Sunday.”

Fortunately, Sevigny agreed to join Kardashian as a replacement.

“[Sevigny], having been in the Ryan Murphy universe, was incredibly gracious, stepped in at the last minute, and came in and did this conversation with Kim,” Setoodeh said. “But that wasn’t her original acting partner.”

After their sit-down was released for the popular Variety video series, the magazine and Kardashian were scrutinized over the pairing, with critics taking issue with Sevigny, an Oscar-nominated performer, being matched with an acting novice like Kardashian.

However, Setoodeh shot down claims that Sevigny had tried to shade the reality star and asserted — despite critics’ assumptions to the contrary — that Sevigny was happy to be there.