Micaela Diamond on Bonding with Travis Kelce onGrotesquerieas TV 'Newbies' and Their 'Humble' On-Set Moment (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Micaela Diamond (left); Travis Kelce.Photo:Walter McBride/Getty; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

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Micaela DiamondandTravis Kelcemay seem like an unlikely pair, but on the set ofGrotesquerie, they were two peas in a pod.

“We were just like the newbies on set, being sponges, trying to figure it out together,” she says. “And we’re both — he’s a mama’s boy, I’m a mama’s girl. I don’t know, there’s something really dear about him, and he was so game.”

Of the choice to cast him in the first place, Diamond, 25, says, “Ryan has a hold on the zeitgeist like no other.”

Diamond, who made a name for herself on Broadway and earned a Tony Award nomination last year for her role inParade, remembers “one day on set, knowing we were both nervous, and then us just having to take a risk.”

Micaela Diamond as Sister Megan in ‘Grotesquerie’.Prashant Gupta/FX

Prashant Gupta/FX

She also recalls a particularly funny moment with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end one day on set that she shares as a means of demonstrating just how down-to-earth he is.

“One of the days on set, I was like, ‘What’s your last name?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, Kelce.’ And I was like, ‘No, your character’s. Obviously I know your last name.'”

She continues, “But it was such a beautiful, humble moment. He really thought I didn’t know his last name!”

To embody the twisted and cult-obsessed Sister Megan, Diamond says she dug into the darkness as a way to understand the creepy world Murphy had built.

“We walked onto set every day and there’s smoke and haze and there’s just a feeling on set that is creepy, to be honest. And I watched a bunch of cult documentaries and saw all these people who really believe that they’re doing the right thing… And I think that kind of drive and motivation — that ambition, that hunger — is what drove Sister Megan through the season.”

Travis Kelce, Niecy Nash on set of ‘Grotesquerie’.Prashant Gupta/FX

“I just did something completely different and bold, and that’s been the process [of the whole show], is I just tried to surprise myself,” she recalls. “I think in a Ryan Murphy world, there’s such room for a bold choice in this heightened stakes world and so you can kind of go for it.”

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Grotesquerieairs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX and streams the next day on Hulu.

source: people.com