'American Crime Story' Season 1 News: David Schwimmer On Trial's Effect On Robert Kardashian, Connie Britton On Faye Resnick
Former pro football player O.J. Simpson's infamous 1995 murder trial changed his loyal friend and defense attorney Robert Kardashian "profoundly," David Schwimmer, who plays the late Kardashian patriarch in the first season of FX's "American Crime Story," has said.
As the recent episodes of "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" have shown, Kardashian, who stood by Simpson after all of his other friends had left his side, began to have a crisis of faith when the DNA and blood evidence began pouring in. In Tuesday's episode, titled "A Jury In Jail," Kardashian questioned Simpson (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), trying to get the murder suspect to confide in him. It also showed the attorney breaking down and telling his ex-wife Kris Jenner (Selma Blair) that he can barely look at his friend of more than two decades and that he doesn't know if he should stay on Simpson's defense team.
Schwimmer recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about Kardashian and the effects the O.J. Simpson trial had on him.
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"I think it changed him profoundly in probably every way," the "Friends" alum said. "This is just my guess, but he never really recovered after that trial."
According to the actor, after the trial, Kardashian's heath and his relationship with his new lady love both deteriorated. Though Schwimmer admitted that the world will never really know what was going on in Kardashian's mind during the 1995 trial, he said that he and the writers consciously chose to portray Kardashian as a "tragic figure."
"He's someone who was dealt a really bad blow by the entire ordeal and then not too much longer afterwards we lost him," the actor told THR.
Meanwhile, "Nashville" star Connie Britton, who portrayed Nicole Brown's friend Faye Resnick in the series, recently spoke about the real-life Resnick.
According to Britton, though people had a lot of preconceptions and commentary about the Beverly Hills socialite, she felt that Resnick was a good person.
As those who were old enough at the time can recall, Resnick, who was fresh out of rehab at the time of the trial, wrote a book about Simpson's relationship with his late wife that threatened to influence the jury and brought Resnick fame and fortune.
"Sometimes she goes about that in sort of circuitous ways," Britton admitted. But, as the actress told Mashable, "she has a complicated background that I think impacts the way she makes choices… I think she really thought she was doing a good thing."
"American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson" airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on FX.
