If there are two things I truly believe in this world, they’re 1) that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are genuinely in love (I mean, come on, would you write “Wood” about someone you weren’t absolutely, humiliatingly down bad for?), and 2) that Kelce’s earnest, open-faced bro vibes represent a positive shift for Swift, whose era of being into mean, skinny indie boys—yes, I’m talking about Matty Healy—was both extremely relatable and needed to conclude ASAP.
I love that Swift seems genuinely happy with a man who eats, breathes, and sleeps football and wears a Happy Gilmore hat to Coachella, and I really love the anecdotes she shares about him. To wit, Swift went on Late Night with Seth Meyers this week to promote her new album The Life of a Showgirl and explained that Kelce thought Hugh Grant’s wife was Greta Gerwig (?!?) at an Eras Tour show. “Is there any chance at all, baby, that you complimented Hugh Grant’s wife, Anna, on her movie Barbie, said, ‘I’m just Ken, too,’ and she politely nodded because she didn’t have the heart to tell you she didn’t direct it?” Swift recalled asking Kelce.
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While this is an extremely charming anecdote, the part of it that I can’t stop obsessively turning over in my mind is that Swift claims Gerwig is Kelce’s favorite director (apparently, Kelce “loves her movies” and “loves her range.” Same!) I’m not trying to imply that sports boys can’t enjoy thoughtfully and sensitively directed coming-of-age films about young women, but…what’s Kelce’s favorite Gerwig movie and/or performance?
Beyond Barbie and identifying as “just Ken” (duh), has he locked in on the master class in soft-toxic female friendship that is Frances Ha? Meditated on the meaning of chosen family while watching Mistress America? Worshipped at the altar of complex mother-daughter bonds in front of Lady Bird? Honestly, I can totally see him curling up for a viewing of Little Women with Swift on a cozy Friday night in and pronouncing the adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel “dope.”
