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Filmmaker Tyler Perry‘s thing these days seems to be wedding movies: After the successes of Why Did I Get Married? and Why Did I Get Married Too?, he’s launching a TV series called For Better or Worse and another movie, The Marriage Counselor. But his decision to keep Kim Kardashian in the movie even after her divorce from Kris Humphries could hurt his credibility.
Kim’s involvement in the project wasn’t even announced until a week before she filed for divorce from Kris: The plan was for her to play Ava, the best friend of the movie’s titular counselor Judith (Jurnee Smollett). After Judith decides she’s tired of giving good (but boring) advice, she messes up her own marriage by sleeping with one of her suave clients. Either before, during, or after this courtship, Ava gives Judith “a big-city makeover.”
Shooting was supposed to begin in Atlanta on October 26, but there’s been no word if Kim’s shown up. In the meantime, Tyler’s fans have flocked to his personal site begging him to cut this Kardashian loose. Says commenter Camille, a long-time supporter of Tyler’s movies,
Please do not give into the hype of this superficial person. She’s been divorced (now twice) at only 31 yrs. old and she is only famous because of a sex tape! Finally, she is an extremely poor role model for young AFRICAN AMERICAN girls. As you are aware, a young daughter of a very prominent A-list black actor wanted to become a p*** star because of Kim Kardashian’s sex tape.
Tyler hasn’t given much of a response other than to confirm to TMZ that Kim will show up for shooting as scheduled. But at least one of his fans has written back against the protesters, shaming them for wanting to boycott a movie that gives jobs to African-Americans.
Sure, the point of actors is to be someone they’re not. And even actresses who play amazing humanitarians aren’t always as saintly as their characters — except maybe Meryl Streep, because she’s awesome — so it’s not as if we should heap the expectation on Kim to be a shining example for marriage. Anyway, it doesn’t even sound like her character is married!
One reason we think Kim lobbied to stay in this movie is because if Ava is giving Judith some much-needed confidence, it might be that she also brings Judith and her estranged husband back together. Imagine the good press if Kim Kardashian is seen as a do-gooder, even if only on the movie screen!
Why Tyler is keeping her is less clear, unless he figures he can bank on higher ticket sales at the box office once people want to see a) if Kim can act (seeing as her last big project was Disaster Movie) and b) if she’ll further insult the institution she’s already made a mockery of.
[via TMZ]
