Those who are followers of the NFL, the main American football competition in the United States, know that Travis Kelce does not need to be described as Taylor Swift’s boyfriend but it is a recently new name for those who come to these lines from a cultural perspective. The point is that, now that both the spotlights of the sports world and those of entertainment are on him thanks to his media relationship, Kelce wants to take a new professional leap: participate in a television series.
To be specific, the athlete will exploit his acting streak in Grotesquerie, a top-level project on American television. It is signed by Ryan Murphy, the man behind titles like American horror story or Dahmer, who has regular collaborators such as Jon Robin Baitz, responsible for Feud: Capote vs the Swans, and Joe Baken, screenwriter and producer on American horror stories.
In the series he will share the spotlight with award-winning actors such as Niecy Nash-Betts, Emmy winner for Dahmer, or Courtney B. Vance, who has two television statuettes for her work in American crime story: The people vs O.J. Simpson and Lovecraft Country, as well as Lesley Manville, Oscar nominated for The Invisible Thread and known as Princess Margaret from The Crown.
At the moment, the plot of Grotesquerie is unknown. Only the preview published below is known in which Niecy Nash-Betts can be heard warning that she does not know “when it started” but that “there has been a change, as if something was opening up to the world: a kind of hole that descends into the nothing”. It will be Murphy’s return to the FX cable channel with an original idea, after having worked exclusively for five years for Netflix and after having created or produced franchises such as American horror story, American crime story or Feud for the channel now owned by Disney. .
Travis Kelce’s leap into professional acting cannot be said to be a surprise. The 34-year-old Kansas City Chiefs player has always been open to spectacle. In 2016 he starred in a reality show where he was looking for a partner called Catching Kelce, he will present a contest for Amazon and, together with his brother Jason, he has the New Heights podcast. He has also made his debut in audiovisual executive production and, as if predicting this signing, last year he signed with CAA, one of the largest representation agencies in Hollywood.
Nor is it an unusual move for Ryan Murphy who, beyond being the all-powerful director, screenwriter and producer who made a name for himself on television with Nip/Tuck in 2003 to become one of the Midas kings of the medium, is a lover of popular culture. He trusted Lady Gaga to headline a season of American Horror Story, before the singer was nominated for an Oscar for A Star is Born, and introduced Stevie Nicks into this same horror universe.
It also turned Nene Leakes, known for the reality show The Real Housewives of Atlanta, into a professional actress. And now he is turning Kim Kardashian into a figure to be reckoned with as an actress, after hiring her for American Horror Story in a role that has allowed the queen of reality television to obtain good reviews and producing with her a series of lawyers, currently in development .
