Travis Kelce is opening up about his earliest days on the set of his first big acting gig.
The 34-year-old Kansas City Chiefs star is set to make his debut alongside Niecy Nash-Betts in Ryan Murphy‘s new series Grotesquerie.
During a new episode of his New Heights podcast with his brother Jason, Travis revealed what his experience has been like so far and how it felt to be working with Ryan.
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“It’s been so much fun,” Travis assured his brother, adding that he’s enjoying getting to know his costars.
He joked that he felt like a “jabroni,” but that he hadn’t been fired yet. So clearly he was doing something right.
“They haven’t told me to f-cking kick rocks after the first week, so it’s been awesome,” he said.
Travis added that he wasn’t sure how many episodes he would be in, explaining that he was really focused on getting through his scenes at the moment.
Thankfully, his team is helping him out.
“Everybody’s just been so helpful in making me feel comfortable,” he said. “Even on top of that, just giving me kinda the direction I need and the coaching I need to portray this part that I’m in.”
What can fans expect? “I don’t want to give too much away, but the name itself can tell you it’s quite a mystery and every scene has just been so much fun to be in,” he said.
The NFL star added that he realized acting was a little different than he thought it would be.
“The biggest difference from being outside of the acting world and starting to get into it is, you’re very much in tuned to the scenes and you don’t want to get so much caught up on the lines. You want to be in the scene with whoever you’re like acting with, right? So, I started off thinking, ‘Man, just memorize your lines. Memorize your lines.’ But in the reality of things, you want to be able to take that scene from one point to the next and portray, you know, exactly what the scene’s meaning is,” he explained.
He also expressed appreciation for Ryan for having faith in him.
“I was kinda blown away and kinda, like, shocked that he was willing to give me a role like this. Because it is a big role on the show,” Travis said of Ryan. “He seemed very confident that I’d be able to do this, and he kinda injected that in me the first conversation that we had. So hopefully I don’t bomb this for him.”
If you missed it, Travis recently opened up about attending Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour with a very famous couple.
