Kylie Jenner may have spent most of her life with cameras following her, but her next television role will require something very different from reality TV. This time, she is playing a character, and that character is not expected to survive her own bachelorette weekend.
Jenner is attached to star in “Bachelorette Weekend,” a developing Hulu thriller centered on the murder of a bride during a pre-wedding getaway with her closest friends. The role would become Jenner’s biggest original scripted television part to date and places her directly at the center of the mystery rather than giving her a quick celebrity cameo.
The setup gives the project an immediate hook. Jenner plays the bride whose celebration ends in her death, leaving the women who traveled with her under suspicion. The story will then dig into the relationships surrounding the bride and the events that unfolded before she was killed. Although her character dies, Deadline described her as the series’ “North Star,” signaling that the bride remains essential to the story as the truth about the weekend slowly comes together.
The working titled series was written by Lauren Oliver, the novelist behind “Before I Fall,” with Kapital Entertainment involved in the project. Jenner is also expected to executive produce alongside Kim Kardashian, Oliver, and Aaron Kaplan. That makes the show more than another acting experiment for Kylie. She would be helping shape a scripted project built around her performance.
The timing is notable because Jenner only recently started showing a stronger interest in acting beyond appearances as herself.
A24 lists Jenner among the cast of the 2026 Charli xcx film “The Moment,” directed by Aidan Zamiri. The movie gave Jenner a chance to play a heightened version of herself inside a fictional story about celebrity and the pressures surrounding fame. Earlier this year, Jenner also made it clear that acting was not something she viewed as a one-time experiment, telling Vanity Fair that she had received scripts and wanted to continue pursuing the right opportunity.
Before “The Moment,” Jenner’s fictional work was much smaller. She voiced Penelopuff in the 2021 animated special “Trolls: Holiday” in Harmony. In 2023, she lent her voice to an animated version of herself during The Simpsons episode “Treehouse of Horror XXXIV.” Those appearances put her inside scripted productions, but neither asked Jenner to carry the emotional weight of a series built around an original character.
That is what makes “Bachelorette Weekend” a significant jump.
Jenner has already built an entire public identity around transformation, so moving into another corner of entertainment is not completely out of character. While discussing the return of her “King Kylie” image during a 2026 campaign, she said, “I feel like the whole campaign was really about bringing King Kylie back in a way that feels playful, nostalgic, and just perfect for the summer.”
That instinct to change her look and presentation has followed Jenner for years. She once described having “this addiction to changing my hair” and said transforming her appearance could make her “feel like a new person.” Now, the reinvention is less about a wig or beauty era and more about whether audiences will accept Kylie Jenner as an actress playing someone other than Kylie Jenner.
She also has several family examples to study.
Kim Kardashian has taken the Kardashian Jenner family’s most serious step into scripted acting in recent years. Hulu confirms Kim stars as attorney Allura Grant in “All’s Fair,” alongside Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash Betts, Teyana Taylor, Sarah Paulson, and Glenn Close. Before that, FX cast her as Siobhan Corbyn in “American Horror Story: Delicate.” Kim also serves as an executive producer on “All’s Fair,” creating a path that now looks similar to what Kylie is attempting with “Bachelorette Weekend.”
Kourtney Kardashian tried scripted television much earlier. The Los Angeles Times reported that she appeared on ABC’s “One Life to Live” in 2011 as attorney Kassandra Kavanaugh. She later took another acting role in the Netflix movie He’s All That.
Kendall Jenner also tested acting outside reality television. CBS confirmed through “Hawaii Five-0” coverage that Kendall guest-starred during the show’s third season in 2012. She played a shop clerk in the episode “I Ka Wa Mamua,” marking one of her earliest attempts at scripted performance.
Khloé Kardashian made a similar move in 2011 when she appeared as herself on “Law & Order: Los Angeles.” Apple TV lists her as a guest star in the episode “Benedict Canyon,” which revolved around the murder of a Hollywood stylist.
None of those roles, however, quite match what Kylie is being handed with “Bachelorette Weekend.” The project is not simply asking viewers to recognize a Kardashian Jenner face inside another show. Its central mystery depends on Kylie creating a bride interesting enough that viewers want to know who killed her, why she died, and what her friends may have been hiding.
For someone whose television career began with audiences watching her actual life unfold, playing a fictional woman whose secrets have to be uncovered after her murder could be Jenner’s biggest screen reinvention yet.
