Dorinda Medley Lands Series Role in Kim Kardashian's Hulu Drama — Here's How It Happened

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It happened at lightning speed — from casting to cameras rolling, barely two weeks. Dorinda Medley has landed her very first acting role — in the second season of the Hulu legal drama 'All's Fair,' which counts Kim Kardashian and Glenn Close among its series stars. How the 61-year-old got the gig, she's now spilling herself.

Auditioned on Friday, Landed on Set

'I auditioned on a Friday and they gave me the role the following week and I filmed a week later,' Medley told Erin Lim Rhodes of E! News The Rundown at the NYC premiere of her new E! series 'The Golden Life' on October 14. Her take on the unusually fast turnaround: 'So, it was cold turkey.' From that first appointment to the shoot week, there was practically no breath.

She openly admits she could barely believe she landed the part: 'I almost died when I got the role. It was fantastic. But acting is hard.' Not wanting to show up on set completely unprepared, she enlisted the help of a friend from her church community — who had once been Zsa Zsa Gabor's acting coach.

Alongside Kim Kardashian and Glenn Close

Exactly which character she plays, Medley is still keeping under wraps. This much she let slip: 'I play a very interesting character that's very well-suited to me. You'll see it and be like, 'Oh yeah, that's her.'' On her high-profile co-stars, she could hardly stop gushing: 'The cast is just off the charts. Leave it up to me to do my first role and it's with Glenn Close and Kim Kardashian. Both incredibly fortunate but ridiculously scary.' She worked directly with both of them — and the chemistry clicked.

Courage to Take the Leap — With a Housewives Mindset

Medley knows all too well that the leap from reality TV to a scripted format scares off the faint of heart. She's already delivered the right answer countless times over five seasons of 'Real Housewives of New York City' (2015 until her 2020 departure) — legendary to this day are her Berkshires catchphrases 'I made it nice,' 'How am I doing? Not well, bitch!' and 'Clip! Clip!,' coined at her Bluestone Manor estate. Translating that to her new gig, she says: 'I think it's so important to keep facing your fears. You can't fail if you don't try, and you can't succeed if you don't try.'

Double TV Comeback: 'The Golden Life' Starting October 20 on E!

Beyond her acting debut, Medley is back on E! starting Tuesday, October 20, at 10 PM — in 'The Golden Life,' a new reality series featuring five RHONY veterans. Along for the ride: Ramona Singer, who joined the original cast in 2008 and has since relocated from New York to Palm Beach, mother of Avery (31) from her marriage to ex-husband Mario Singer; Sonja Morgan, who calls herself 'the straw that stirs the drink' and sold her Manhattan townhouse in 2024, mother of Quincy (26); Luann de Lesseps, once 'the Countess' alongside Count Alexandre de Lesseps, today an internationally celebrated cabaret singer with songs like 'Money Can't Buy You Class' and 'Chic C'est La Vie,' mother of Victoria (32) and Noel (30); plus Kelly Bensimon, an early-2000s model, now active as a luxury real estate agent, mother of Sea (28) and Teddy (26).

The E! trailer for the new show already teases plenty of bickering — but the tone underneath sounds reconciliatory. Medley sums it up: 'We are so rhythmically, naturally suited. We're individually fun characters and collectively it is what it is.' She adds: 'We can argue, we can go through stuff... at this point we have gone through everything: Husbands, raised children, moms, wives, ex-wives. And now we choose to be together.'

Premiere of 'The Golden Life': Tuesday, October 20, 10 PM on E!. Exactly when Season 2 of 'All's Fair' premieres has yet to be announced.