Emmy Award-winning actress Niecy Nash has commented on Travis Kelsey's budding acting career.
“Travis Kelce is greedy; he eats a lot. Too much! But other than teasing him about that, we had a great time working together,” Nash, 54, told The Post.
Nash stars alongside the NFL player in Ryan Murphy's latest show, “Grotesquerie,” premiering Wednesday, Sept. 25 (10 p.m.) on FX and streaming the next day on Hulu.
The drama series follows Detective Lois Tryon (Nash), who is investigating a series of crimes in a small community that feel oddly personal, as if someone is taunting her.
Soon, she receives help from Sister Megan (Mikeyla Diamond), a nun and journalist. Lois also struggles with strained relationships with her daughter (Raven Goodwin) and husband (Courtney B. Vance), who is hospitalized for a long time. Lesley Manville (“The Crown”) co-stars as a nurse, while NFL star and Taylor Swift's boyfriend, Kelsey, appears in his first acting role.
“I’m a Chiefs fan now,” Nash joked about Kelce.
She added, “Am I a Chiefs fan or am I just a Travis fan? Because whatever team he was playing on would probably be my team right now! He's very personable, very personable, he came to work well prepared. A professional in every way. I had a lot of fun working with him and I enjoyed him as a person.”
Nash, best known for “Reno 911!” “Claws,” and “When They See Us,” won an Emmy in 2022 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in another Ryan Murphy show, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”
When Murphy called to offer her a role in one of his shows, Nash said her answer was “automatically 'yes.'”
He quipped: “Always and forever.”
Although Nash is experienced in both comedy and drama, he said “Grotesquerie” presented a new challenge for him.
“I’ve never played a character like this before,” he told the Post.
“So I really had to think about that. I had to think about conversations I've had with people along the way – when you meet people, you can learn something from them and put it in your acting bag. I didn't base him on any one person in particular, but he's just a little bit different people from my experience.”
The former “Scream Queens” star said Lois struggled with alcohol addiction.
“I've never played a woman with an addiction before… This was something different. You can be in a lot of different places. Are you high? Are you drunk? Hangover? There's a lot of places to be,” she said, adding that the challenge of the role was “keeping track of everything that's happened so you can understand where you are emotionally and in addiction, it's something you have to keep track of.”
The cast and crew had no idea who the killer was until the very end.
Nash said, “There's something about the way this serial killer commits his crimes (that makes you react) like, 'What do you say now?' I've never seen or heard anything like that, how did Ryan imagine it?”
“And the whole time, interestingly, the whole crew was discussing who the serial killer was? Who did it? 'I think it's this person, I think it's that person.' We were all into it, right until the end. So it definitely makes you want to stay on the ride and try to figure out what's going on.”
When Nash eventually learned the killer's identity, she said she was “very surprised.”
