You may have heard of the new “Taylor and Travis” Hallmark movie, which many have described as being inspired by Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift‘s romance. But even the stars of Holiday Touchdown admit that as romantic as their film is, it can’t hold a candle to the team’s most famous lovebirds.
“You can’t touch that story,” says Hunter King, who stars in the film as a Chiefs-obsessed small business owner named Avery. “It’s too perfect. We’re all rooting for them so much. It’s almost like its own movie. We’re watching it play out in real time.”
But even though the film—which premieres on November 30—isn’t a retelling of Traylor’s romance, it still is pretty adorable and unique. A first of its kind collaboration between the Chiefs and Hallmark Channel, which are both based in Kansas City, the film tells the story of Avery, a Chiefs superfan whose love of the team spans generations. When her family decides to try to win the team’s “Fan of the Year” contest, they come under evaluation by Derrick (Tyler Hynes), who is the team’s director of fan engagement. Predictably, sparks fly.
Despite the fact that he’s not actually playing Kelce, Hynes still took a bit of inspiration from KillaTrav. Particularly, his singing of Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places” at the Super Bowl victory parade earlier this year, which Hynes got to attend.
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“He was up on stage and he sang that song and I loved every second of it,” he says. “Throughout the whole movie, I played that song every day on the way to work and I still sing the lyrics.”
Kelce himself doesn’t appear in the film, but several other Chiefs players do. And there’s a special cameo from another Kelce: Travis’ mom (and 2024 Glamour Woman of the Year) Donna, who King and Hynes agree is a star in the making. King says they think she should be the star in the hopefully inevitable Holiday Touchdown sequel.
“We hope Donna is ready for that. We got to make some phone calls,” she says.
King and Hynes chatted with Glamour about how they became huge Chiefs fans during the film, what it’s like filming in a football stadium in beanies in the middle of summer (not great), and more about their vision for that sequel to their “Taylor and Travis” Hallmark movie.
