Travis Kelce walks to the small screen.
And not just as part of his professional football duties.
The future Hall of Famer just landed his first-ever real acting gig, signing on for a role in Ryan Murphy’s high-profile new FX horror series. grotesque.
Murphy has been known in the past for giving entertainers legitimate roles in his shows, such as with Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian for his American Horror Story franchise.
Very few details about Kelce’s role have been made available to the public. We don’t even know what this program will be about.
But we Do You know the three-time Super Bowl champion has been cast alongside Niecy Nash-Betts, Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville in the upcoming series, which has just begun production.
Those are some big names in Hollywood!
Well done, Travis!
Kelce has made it no secret that he wants to move further into the entertainment industry.
This spring, he hosted “Saturday Night Live” and hosted a series of commercials.
Kelce was previously the focus of the reality show Catching Kelce, which ran for one season in 2016, and was recently signed on to host Amazon’s Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? Game show.
A handful of Swift followers have feared for some time that Travis is only dating Taylor to increase his visibility and promote himself as a legitimate A-list celebrity.
Others worry that Kelce drinks too much.
After Deadline broke this story, Kelce posted a video from the set of the upcoming drama.
“Guys, guess who I’m working with on Grotesquerie,” Nash-Betts says to the camera, before Kelce comes up to her and says:
“Entering new territory. With Niecy!”
So there you have it, folks. In case you need further confirmation.
Grotesquerie, which Murphy produces alongside his regular collaborators Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken, released a text-only teaser in February.
It included audio recordings of Nash-Bett’s character saying:
“I don’t know when it started, I can’t say exactly, but now it’s different. A change has taken place, as if something was opening up in the world – a kind of hole sinking into nothingness.”