Selma Blair to Play Kris Jenner on “The People V OJ Simpson”

Michael Becker/FX(LOS ANGELES) — The cast for FX’s American Crime Story: The People V OJ Simpson just gets bigger and bigger.

On Monday, Entertainment Weekly announced that Selma Blair, 42, will be cast as Kris Jenner in the series that will focus on the murder trial O.J. Simpson was the center of in the 1990s.

Jenner, the Kardashian matriarch, was married to Robert Kardashian, Simpson’s attorney at the time of the trial for Nicole Brown Simpson’s murder.

Friends alum David Schwimmer will play Kardashian, while John Travolta will be Robert Shapiro and Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. will play the former NFL great. Courtney B. Vance was also cast as attorney Johnnie Cochran in the series produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.

Blair is most known for her work in Cruel Intentions and Legally Blonde, and has also starred recently in TV shows like Anger Management and Web Therapy.

O.J. Simpson was acquitted after eight months on Oct. 3, 1995. His ex-wife Nicole was killed at the age of 35 one year prior in June 1994.

The series has already begun filming in Los Angeles.


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