Niecy Nash-Betts is reflecting on her time working, and snacking, with Grotesquerie costar Travis Kelce.
In a brand new interview with ETalk, shared on TikTok on Friday, Sept. 27, the 54-year-old Emmy winner was requested what kind of meals she and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish, 34, would eat whereas practising their traces for the Ryan Murphy collection.
“Something and all the things. Travis is grasping,” she joked. “Something and all the things. I am speaking from burgers to pasta. Solely one in all us ever ate a salad and that was me.”
Nash-Betts’ joking revelation got here after she referred to as Kelce a “dream” to work with within the new FX collection, by which she leads the solid as a small-town detective investigating a collection of crimes. “He’s so charming however involves work ready,” she informed ETalk. “He is open to study. And I feel his followers are going to be pleasantly stunned.”
The actress additionally stated that she thinks the NFL star “caught the bug” along with his newest function, including, “I could possibly be fallacious, however I really feel like sure, you are going to see him do much more.”
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For Grotesquerie, Kelce stepped into his first-ever scripted TV function, in a present that follows Nash-Betts’ character of Detective Lois, who tries to unravel the “eerily private” collection of crimes.
And after attending to know Kelce on set, the actress now intends to catch a Chiefs recreation along with her spouse Jessica Betts, she informed PEOPLE this week.
“So sure, I will get to see him, but additionally I noticed him play within the Tremendous Bowl. However we did not know one another then,” she stated. “Now it is totally different. At first it was identical to the sport and now it is like, ‘Oh, there’s my good friend Travis. Hey Travis!’ That is totally different. It is private now.”
As Nash-Betts defined, the “guys” on set have been “fangirling all the best way out” once they noticed Kelce for the primary time. He was in the end “pretty to have on set,” “got here ready” and was “very open” to options.
“He was very open on if there was a be aware given or a suggestion given. So amenable,” Nash-Betts stated. ” ‘Inform me what I do not know. Inform me what your thought is on this.’ And I like that he did not are available attempting to behave like, ‘I do know all the things and I do know all of it.’ ”
In the meantime, the star athlete’s mother Donna Kelce informed PEOPLE on the collection’ New York Metropolis premiere on Monday, Sept. 23 that she felt Travis has “all the time” had appearing “behind his thoughts.”
“I just think that he thought, ‘If I get an opportunity, I would like to try [acting],” she stated. “He is fairly good at absolutely anything he does as a result of he is obtained a very good work ethic, so we’ll see.”
Grotesquerie premiered Wednesday, Sept. 25 on FX and is now streaming on Hulu.