What Taylor Swift said to Travis Kelce before his surprise acting debut

After Travis Kelce wowed Taylor Swift fans by making a surprise appearance on stage at the Eras tour earlier this year, many people wondered if there was anything the man couldn’t do.

As well as his casual Super Bowl wins with the Kansas City Chiefs – and his now-famous dance moves – Kelce also hosts a podcast with his brother Jason.

And now, he’s even made his acting debut, featuring in Ryan Murphy’s new series Grotesquerie, which came out on FX today and will also be available to watch on Hulu.

The 10-episode show, which also stars the likes of Niecy Nash, Courtney B. Vance, Lesley Manville, Micaela Diamond, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Raven Goodwin, follows a detective working with a local nun to investigate the source of a series of heinous crimes.

Murphy, who also directed Netflix’s recent Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, said Kelce didn’t need any tips as he went in front of the camera.

"A star is a star is a star - and he's a star,” he told E! News.

The director added: "He's so charismatic, and he's so smart, he's lovely.

Travis Kelce in Grotesquerie (FX)

"He had a window of time. He asked me to work up something for him. I did. It was an honor."

And as for what Kelce’s Grammy-winning girlfriend thought about the new gig, she apparently had nothing but ‘support’ for her partner.

Murphy continued: "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.

"I was thrilled about that."

He said he’d heard nothing but ‘sweet, lovely things’ about Swift, gushing: “I love her, too.”

Kelce with girlfriend Taylor Swift (Gotham/GC Images/Getty Images)

Murphy said he was impressed by the hard work he saw from Kelce, who appears in the series’ first episode.

"He knew everybody's lines," he recalled.

"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."

As well as Grotesquerie, Ryan Murphy fans can also get their fix from Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the second instalment of the eerie true-crime franchise.

It landed on Netflix last week, and tells the story of the Beverly Hills brothers who shot their parents a total of 16 times at their family home, having allegedly been subjected to years of sexual, emotional and physical abuse.