‘Grotesquerie’ Trailer: Niecy Nash-Betts Stars, Travis Kelce Predicts ‘No Future’ in Ungodly Thriller
In the Grotesquerie trailer, Detective Lois Tryon (Niecy Nash-Betts), suspects a criminal committing heinous crimes — including the murder of an entire family — is taunting her.
“It’s like God left the keys to the candy store to the devil,” Nash-Betts’ character confesses to a pastor.
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As dead bodies populate, a crime-hunting journalist and nun Sister Megan (Micaela Diamond), who has an interest in rituals and cults, requests to help the investigation. Travis Kelce, who is featured introducing the trailer released on Wednesday, says “there’s no future after this,” as the monster continues to wreak havoc.
In the latest Ryan Murphy-directed series, crime sleuths find themselves “ensnared in a sinister web that only seems to raise more questions than answers,” a synopsis reads. The 10-episode series also stars Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville.
NFL star (and boyfriend to Taylor Swift) Kelce said he felt “jabroni” working beside professional actors, in his New Heights podcast, a show he co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce. The series marks Kelce’s first major acting role, which partially explains his early astonishment.
“I was kinda blown away and kinda, like, shocked that he was willing to give me a role like this, because it is a big role on the show,” Kelce said of Murphy. “He seemed very confident that I’d be able to do this and he kinda injected that in me the first conversation that we had. So hopefully I don’t bomb this for him.”
The trailer for Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was also released Wednesday. The series dives into the night Lyle and Erik Menendez shot and killed their parents at the family’s Beverly Hills home. The project comes two years after Murphy’s Monster: The Dahmer Story, chronicling the life of cannibalistic killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
Grotesquerie premieres Sept. 25.
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