Taylor Swift wants Travis Kelce to leave a blank space for new adventures. Ryan Murphy —who directed the Kansas City Chiefs tight end in his forthcoming show Grotesquerie —shared the advice the Grammy winner gave her boyfriend when he signed on to act in the FX series . "The only thing that [Travis and I] talked about was that she's very supportive of him, and if he has an interest, she wanted him to try it," Ryan exclusively told E! News at the Sept.
23 premiere of Grotesquerie in New York. "I was thrilled about that." After all, Ryan heard nothing but “sweet, lovely things” about Taylor, adding, “I love her, too.
” And when it came to working with the football player, the American Horror Story creator admitted Travis didn't need any tips. As Ryan—who also created and served as a producer on the drama—put it, "A star is a star is a star—and he's a star." "He's so charismatic, and he's so smart, he's lovely," he continued.
"He had a window of time. He asked me to work up something for him. I did.
It was an honor." And while Travis—who appears in the first episode of Grotesquerie alongside costar Niecy Nash —was a natural on screen, Ryan was equally impressed by how hard he worked. "He knew everybody's lines," Ryan explained.
"He had a great discipline, and he is everything you want him to be. He's a leader, and so sweet and so charming, first on the set, last to leave, great team around him." (For more from Ryan, tune into E! News tonight, Sept.
23, at 11.
