At the New York premiere of Ryan Murphy ’s Halloween entry for FX, a whirling psychological crime thriller starring Niecy Nash-Betts and Courtney B. Vance called “ Grotesquerie ,” the co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, Dana Walden, made it only one sentence into her introduction before talking up a certain Kansas City Chiefs football star. “On behalf of everyone at Disney, I really want to welcome you,” Walden said.
“We’re so excited about this show, and — I don’t know if you heard this or not — a very special person named Travis Kelce is making his acting debut in this show.” Walden teased Kelce’s appearance at the premiere before welcoming his emissary instead, mother Donna Kelce. She stood up and gave a wave.
Then came introductions of the cast and production. “Grotesquerie,” which also stars Nicholas Alexander Chavez of Murphy’s “Monsters” and Broadway’s Micaela Diamond, is a murder-thriller kaleidoscope in true Murphy form: brutal gore, crippling social dysfunction, catholicism, psychosexual perversion, a murderer on the loose, indecipherable plotting and one crucial ingredient — irresistible celebrity. In “Grotesquerie,” Kelce joins the cast as a charming — if not porny — bed nurse.
As expected, he was all anybody talked about on Monday evening. “I mean it would be one thing if he wasn’t a nice guy,” Vance, who is also an executive producer on the show, told Variety . “But really, he’s a nice guy.
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