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Travis Kelce will soon be dominating our screens. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end reportedly booked a role in a new Lionsgate action film Loose Cannons, just months after his upcoming part on FX’s Grotesquerie was revealed. With Kelce’s new TV stints — he is also the host of the upcoming quiz show Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity? — fans are trolling, saying he may soon surpass Taylor Swift’s ex in acting roles.
Before Kelce — and a brief romantic stint with The 1975’s Matty Healy — Swift dated actor Joe Alwyn for six years. Alwyn, 33, is known for roles in Harriet, Boy Erased, Conversations With Friends, and most recently, Kinds of Kindness.
After the announcement of Kelce’s role in Loose Cannons, fans couldn’t help but compare Alwyn’s body of work to Kelce’s quickly growing on-screen resume.
One Swiftie’s tweet — and dig at Alwyn — went viral, prompting a mix of responses.
“Booking more acting gigs in 6 months than joe alwyn did in 6 years is crazy,” they wrote on X (formerly Twitter). At the time of writing, the post has been shared over 1,000 times and has pulled in over 33,000 likes. Some of the replies came from Swifties, laughing in agreement with the post, but others pulled out the receipts, quickly proving the fan wrong.
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One person responded with a screenshot of the filmography section from Alwyn’s Wikipedia page.
Another suggested that it’s time for Swifties to let go of their animosity toward Alywyn.
“For a past relationship, from which everyone has moved on, why do some fans seem to be so fixated on Joe,” said the X user.
For a past relationship, from which everyone has moved on, why do some fans seem to be so fixated on Joe 🤔🤔🤔
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Though it isn’t necessarily true that Kelce has surpassed Alwyn’s bookings — given Alywn’s 14 on-screen credits between 2018 and now, including upcoming roles in The Brutalist, Hamlet, and Hamnet — Kelce is quickly stacking up roles.
In addition to Grotesquerie and Loose Cannons, Adam Sandler announced that Kelce will appear in the upcoming sequel to Happy Gilmore. Kelce is also credited as an executive producer on the upcoming movie, My Dead Friend Zoe, set for release this November.
Kelce opened up in an interview with Good Morning America about his experience playing a fictional character for the first time on Grotesquerie. “I feel like an amateur right now, but it’s definitely a fun challenge, and I’m enjoying every bit of it, for sure… I’m coachable,” said the NFL star. “That’s one thing I know from being in sports, I am a coachable guy. It’s just been awesome… Everybody involved in terms of the actors and the directors and the writers have just helped me out so much, understanding what I’m supposed to be doing. And I’m just having fun with it.”
Fans will get the first taste of Kelce’s acting chops upon the premiere of Grotesquerie on September 25.
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