Look, I would hazard a guess that most mothers can inadvertently be a little mean sometimes. Most of our mothers, thankfully, are not often interviewed on the red carpet. Enter: Donna Kelce, Travis Kelce’s mother.
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Specifically to my mother: Please don’t comment on this article, you can just text me.
Yesterday, Donna attended Travis’s acting debut in the Ryan Murphy show Grotesquerie in lieu of the football star. He plays a bed nurse in a story that Variety has summarized as, “brutal gore, crippling social dysfunction, catholicism, psychosexual perversion, a murderer on the loose, [and] indecipherable plotting.”
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Speaking to Variety on the red carpet before watching the show, Donna said, “I know he wanted to do this, and I know he can manifest things… He has no fear of trying things, and he has no fear of failure.”
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“You know, sometimes parents want to fix things for their kids,” she continued. “But sometimes it’s better to just let them fail. You learn the most from things you don’t do well. Hopefully, if this is something he wants to do, he’ll get better at it.”
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Ryan recently said that Travis worked with an acting coach for “several months” before the shoot and that the role came about following a general meeting between the two. “We were talking about his future and what does he want to do after football season, and I was just kind of giving him some fatherly advice,” Ryan previously explained. “I always have a motto in my world and in my work, that a star is a star is a star. It doesn’t matter what field you’re a star in. If you have that charisma, you are going to bring it to whatever you do.”
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We shall all judge the effort for ourselves when FX’s Grotesquerie hurtles into our lives this evening.
