Travis Kelce recalled feeling out of place on the Grotesquerie set not just because it was his first major acting role — but because of how some of the other actors looked at him.
During the Tuesday, July 1, episode of the “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast, Kelce, 35, was asked about the challenges of playing Ed Laclan (a.k.a Fast Eddie) on FX’s Grotesquerie.
“[It was] not necessarily that it wasn’t for me. I was part of a really good cast. I think I got a lot of help and a lot of pointers from them,” he noted. “So they helped make me feel comfortable in the moment.”
Kelce admitted “preparation” was his biggest issue, adding, “I’m so prepared for an NFL game. I get an entire week to figure out a scheme of how I’m going to attack somebody and how I’m going to, like, handle certain specific situations. When you go into acting, I just don’t feel as prepared.”
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“I don’t know that professionalism before the cameras are on. I just hadn’t found that yet. I’m just going over the lines and I thought I could work something out,” he continued. “How many times am I going to read this same line and think that. You know what I mean? I gotta find the professional [in me].”
Prashant Gupta / ©FX / Courtesy FX via Everett CollectionKelce was introduced early in the season, which premiered in October 2024, as an orderly named Ed who worked at the same hospital where Lois’ (Niecy Nash-Betts) husband, Marshall (Courtney B. Vance), was being treated after falling into a coma. Ed and Lois developed a flirtation but didn’t act on their feelings. He subsequently fell in love with Lois and Marshall’s daughter, Merritt (Raven Goodwin) before viewers learned none of it was real.
Grotesquerie shocked Us more than halfway through the season with the reveal that Lois was the one in the coma. As a result, everything shown before episode 7 was a sequence of dreams she was having while unconscious in the hospital, and Kelce embodied a second character.
“Every single director that I met on set, I was just telling them, ‘Coach me up. I’m here to be coached. If I suck, tell me I suck and tell me how I can be better. I’ll take all the criticism. I don’t give a f***,’” Kelce recalled on Tuesday. “I was big on if a scene would happen and the directors were watching the scene over to see if they like it or not or see what we could do different, I would hurry up and go over there to watch some film real quick.”
Kelce went on to say that he didn’t feel like he “grasped the acting world yet.” Teasing Kelce for being “out of place,” the cohosts asked whether other actors questioned his presence on the show’s set.
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“I felt those eyes,” Kelce admitted. “I felt those eyes a little bit.”
The athlete didn’t get specific, but Nash-Betts, 55, previously praised his work on the show. “The blessing about this particular show for an actor is that most of the characters play a duality,” she joked during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly in October 2024. “Travis went from being a charming person who worked at the hospital to being down and out on his luck guy who has a mullet.”
Nash-Betts recalled making an effort to ensure Kelce felt supported on set.
“I just wanted to make sure I was very, very present for him in this new space. [He was] coming into the acting world and was just getting baptized in [the acting world] real quick,” she added. “[Grotesquerie] is going to come with some things that maybe other shows don’t present so I just wanted to make sure he felt covered. I wanted to make sure we had time to rehearse.”
Nash-Betts also opened up about building an onscreen chemistry with Kelce, quipping, “I was born to flirt, so that part is easy.”
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