Kaila Methven, the self-proclaimed heiress of KFC, is furious at the Lifetime movie of the fast food chain starring Mario Lopez as a sexy Colonel Sanders, who says A recipe for seduction is “degrading” and “vulgar “.
The 16-minute short film “presented by Kentucky Fried Chicken” is about a wealthy heiress named Jessica who falls in love with her family’s cook, Harland Sanders. The love story puts a key in the plot of her intriguing mother to marry a wealthy suitor who will pay the family debt.
Methven, 29, told Fox News that since the announcement of the brand content collaboration, his companies and personal brand have been inundated with questions about whether the plot inspired by the soap opera. film was based on her and her rich family.
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Critic: Kaila Methven, the self-proclaimed heiress of KFC, has criticized the KFC-inspired film of Lifetime A Recipe for Seduction, saying it is “very vulgar” and has a “degrading” tone overall.
Drama: The 16-minute lifelong film presented by Kentucky Fried Chicken is about a wealthy heiress named Jessica who falls in love with her family’s cook, Harland Sanders.
Transformation: Mario Lopez (left) portrays a sexy Colonel Harland Sanders (right), the founder of KFC real life, known for his white hair and glasses
The maternal grandfather of lingerie designer Stanley Methven was the founder of Rainbow Chicken Unlimited, a South African company that once supplied 90% of KFC’s poultry. He The family is worth about $ 600 million.
“It was a lot of fun, I woke up this morning and went down to my building and a lot of people were asking me if that was my grandmother or if it was my mother, the movie she was portraying,” he said. “First they started with a sexy virtual Sanders and then they came out with this movie, which is now a sexy Sanders.”
The film aired last Sunday at noon and, meanwhile, KFC is not explicitly mentioned by its name, the association is likely to be evident to anyone familiar with the fast food chain and its real-life founder, Colonel Harland Sanders.
Methven claimed KFC was “desperate” and had no food when his grandfather came to the company’s rescue in the 1970s, making it clear that reality was far from a love movie.
The heiress of the chicken fortune said yes He was ashamed of that [Lifetime and KFC] would take an American family franchise that my grandfather made mundane and turn it into a kind of cheap movie about a boy who prostitutes himself to a rich family.
Methven added that he was also surprised to see Lopez playing a great Sanders in the film, recalling how she last saw him in January at the release of her individual covers of Marie Westwood magazine.
Connection: 29-year-old grandfather Stanley Methven was the founder of Rainbow Chicken Unlimited, a South African company that once supplied 90% of KFC poultry
Difficult to handle: Methven, 29, said she was inundated with questions about whether the soap opera-inspired film was based on her and her wealthy family.
Drama: The lingerie designer said she was “embarrassed” to see the KFC franchise become “a cheap movie about a boy who prostitutes himself to a wealthy family.”
He noted that he barely spoke to her, which he believes was a sign that he felt guilty about his involvement in the film.
“He came in, took a picture and ran out,” he alleged. But I guess he was making the movie and he knew what he was doing wrong.
While she could agree that the film was “very pretty and cheesy” on the surface, she found it to have a “degrading” tone in general, particularly the final scene showing Jessica’s mother it is in a mental institution.
“I think certain aspects of the film can be interpreted as something very vulgar and definitely not something the Methven family would approve of,” said Methven, whose mother, Lisa Methven, committed suicide when she was only 14 years.
“The atmosphere of the soap opera was smart,” he admitted. “It was actually a little fun … [it] it reminded me of my mother’s family: lies, scandals, and money. Everyone in my family married wealthy families, except me. Jo
“I took a completely different and opposite approach by taking my independent initiative and becoming an entrepreneur.”
Say what? When the mini-movie trailer fell on December 7, confused viewers had a hard time believing what they saw, and many asked if the film was “real.”
In short, Methven wants people to respect her as a haute couture designer and understand that it had nothing to do with creating A Recipe for Seduction.
“I find it totally inappropriate and so embarrassing,” he said of the film. “I don’t want any part of it and I apologize on behalf of everyone who sees KFC that way, because it’s very harmful.”
Lifetime and KFC announced their collaboration on the short film on Dec. 7 and saying people were confused would be an understatement.
Lopez portrays a current KFC king with bulging biceps and a chiseled torso, a totally different look from real-life founder Colonel Harland Sanders.
While Sanders was known for his white hair and cheerful appearance, the 47-year-old actor has salt and pepper hair, a trimmed beard and glasses.
He finds himself trapped in a suspenseful romance with Jessica (Justene Alpert), the daughter of a wealthy family, to the dismay of his mother (Tessa Munro) and suitor (Chad Doreck) who tries to turn her into his wife.
Holiday Trouble: Looks like there are some villains who have come out to Sanders in the movie
Dangerous: Jessica’s jealous suitor (Chad Doreck) finds Sanders’ “secret recipe” and plans to use it against him
Will there be a happy ending? The trailer shows the suitor holding Sanders
“I think I’m falling in love with the new chef,” Jessica says on the trailer’s phone, then tells her mother that Sanders “has a recipe that will change the world.”
The clip ends with Jessica’s despised suitor sharpening a knife in the kitchen, saying, “I’ll take care of that.”
Twitter users were as baffled by the “ridiculous” concept of mini-movie as Methven, and users called the premise “crazy.”
When the trailer fell, viewers had a hard time believing what they saw, and one person tweeted, “I refuse to believe this is real.”
‘It’s real? That can’t be real, ”someone else commented.
However, many people were intrigued by the excessive plot of the movement and the casting of Lopez as Sanders.
“This is the first film of my whole life that has interested me,” one person posted in a tweet, while another added, “I applaud KFC for trying to turn the face of your company into a sexual symbol “.
Hard to resist: some admitted they couldn’t stop “laughing” at the trailer, while others thought the baffling short film was the perfect end to 2020
“After 15 seconds of deliberation, this is now a Mario Lopez as a fan of Colonel Sanders,” someone else commented.
Others admitted that the trailer brought them great joy because they couldn’t stop laughing as they watched it.
“I laughed so much when I saw the‘ trailer ’on YT yesterday,” a fan shared. ‘[Are] we run out of movie concepts when they turn the KFC recipe into a sexy movie about an assassination attempt ???? ‘
“I’m still laughing … It’s just … Mario Lopez plays Colonel Sanders … like KFC … for a lifelong movie that KFC has presented to you,” someone else agreed. “Oh man, what an absolute parody of American capitalism.”
Some thought the film was the perfect end to 2020, which has already been a disastrous and unpredictable year.
“Is Mario Lopez playing Colonel Sanders in a romantic 2020 top movie?” one person asked, while someone else tweeted, “I didn’t have a crazy KFC romance movie on my 2020 bingo card.” Damn. ‘
“Why is it real?” This is the exact moment when I became convinced that we were in a Home simulation ”, shared another person.