At the New York premiere of Ryan Murphy’s Halloween entry for FX, a spine-tingling psychological crime thriller starring Niecy Nash-Betts and Courtney B. Vance called Grotesquerie, Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden used just one sentence in her introduction before mentioning a certain Kansas City Chiefs football star.

“On behalf of everyone at Disney, I really want to welcome you,” Walden said. “We’re so excited about this show, and — I don’t know if you’ve heard — a very special person named Travis Kelce is making his acting debut on this show.”

Walden teased Kelce’s appearance at the premiere before welcoming his emissary, mother Donna Kelce, instead. She stood and waved. Introductions of the cast and production followed.

“Grotesquerie,” which also stars Nicholas Alexander Chavez of Murphy’s “Monsters” and Broadway’s Micaela Diamond, is a murder-thriller kaleidoscope in true Murphy style: brutal bloodshed, crippling social dysfunction, Catholicism, psychosexual perversion, a murderer on the loose, incomprehensible plot twists and one crucial ingredient: irresistible celebrity.

In “Grotesquerie,” Kelce joins the cast as a charming — if not pornographic — bedside nurse. As expected, he was all anyone could talk about Monday night.

“I mean, it would be one thing if he wasn’t a nice guy,” Vance, who is also an executive producer on the show, said Variety. “But he’s a really nice guy.” According to Vance, Kelce’s casting “just helps us. It helps everybody. Ryan is all about publicity, and he does it better than anyone.”

Murphy gave the audience at Spring Studios a quick recap of the show on Monday before the airing of the third episode, which will feature Kelce for the first time.

“There’s a deranged serial killer on the loose,” he began. “Niecy is a detective who’s out of time. She’s a blackout alcoholic. Meanwhile, her husband, Courtney B. Vance, is in a COVID-induced coma and she doesn’t want him to wake up. He’s being cared for by Lesley Manville, who wants power of attorney so she can keep giving him sponge baths. This is all very true,” he chided.

“Chaos ensues when Micaela Diamond shows up,” Murphy continued. “She’s a true crime fanatic nun who covers this case for the local papers. Her boss, played by Nick, is a true crime-obsessed priest who also happens to be a Peloton instructor. This show has it all.”

That Kelce is taking on a multi-episode story arc in Grotesquerie won’t come as a surprise to the average Murphy viewer. Fame is Murphy’s muse, and fame is often his subject. Stardom — and the kind of fearsome fandom surrounding Kelce and Taylor Swift — are tools to be used.

“Television moves in weekly increments. Our little bites are like a series of appetizers, psychologically. And that’s how television can handle the rush of guests,” summed up co-creator Jon Robin Baitz, who signed a five-year contract with 20th Television after serving as writer and showrunner on Murphy’s “Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans.”

“Ryan and I talked a lot about the state of existence in the world while making ‘Feud,’” Baitz said Variety about making the show. “We just wanted to write something on spec. It was about the zeitgeist, about how dark the zeitgeist was. Post-pandemic terror in the world. Ideas about the breakdown of society. We just made a collage of it.”

That’s the crux of the matter: Like everything Murphy makes, “Grotesquerie” is merely a mirror of ourselves. Murphy throws fame and celebrity into the world the way the Romans did bread and circuses. If Murphy serves up Kelce as a sexy hospital assistant this fall — we’ll have earned it.

“This was Ryan’s thing, and, well,” Baiz paused, “Travis Kelce’s mom is right behind me.”

For mom Kelce, who continued her internet fame on Monday by answering questions about Taylor Swift on the red carpet, it’s no surprise that her son is starring in a Murphy series.

“I know he wanted to do this, and I know he can manifest things,” she said Variety“He’s not afraid to try things, and he’s not afraid to fail.”

Kelce said she was preparing to see the show for the first time that night, and gave her son some advice.

“You know, sometimes parents want to fix things for their kids,” she said Variety. “But sometimes it’s better to just let them fail. You learn the most from things you don’t do right. Hopefully, if this is something he wants to do, he’ll get better at it.”

(Pictured: Courtney B. Vance, Niecy Nash-Betts and Donna Kelce)