It’s a huge day for golden retriever boyfriends and the partners who patiently walk, feed, and throw toys for them. News recently broke that NFL tight end and known Taylor Swift associate Travis Kelce will join the cast of Ryan Murphy’s upcoming horror drama series Grotesquerie.
I have quite literally thousands of questions, but perhaps chief among them (hehe, “chief,” get it? Because he plays for the Chiefs?) is: has Kelce always wanted to act, with football merely functioning as a lucrative side hobby?
Niecy Nash-Betts, Courtney B. Vance, and Lesley Manville are also confirmed to star in what, at this point, has to be Murphy’s 80th prestige horror drama, but we don’t know much else about the production, except for the fact that w’’ll all obviously be watching to see if Kelce is as good at acting as he is at wearing extremely dad-core hats. Curious about Kelce’s acting chops, I turned to that ultimate chronicle of Hollywood bona fides—his IMDb page—and found only a single item: in 2020, he appeared on an episode of Fred Armisen and Tim Heidecker’s show Moonbase 8, credited as simply “Kelce.” (Not listed is his 2023 Saturday Night Live hosting gig, when the musical guest was, hilariously, Kelsea Ballerini.)
To be fair, Kelce does have a good amount of experience entertaining a crowd; he and his brother, Jason Kelce, have hosted a podcast called New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce since September of 2022 (which, in podcast years, is basically a decade). I can’t help hoping that Kelce will pretty much just play himself on Grotesquerie, but who knows? Maybe his friendliest-bro-alive demeanor conceals some hidden acting chops we’re not privy to yet.