Hunter King and Tyler Hynes Phillip Faraone/Getty Photographs for Hallmark Media
Tyler Hynes and Hunter King know all also well that quite a few eyes will be on their Hallmark rom-com manufactured together with the Kansas Town Chiefs.
“I was just so fired up,” King, 30, solely advised Us Weekly on the purple carpet at the 2024 ESPY Awards at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on Thursday, July 11. “Watching this collaboration unfold and seeing absolutely everyone else’s exhilaration designed my enjoyment even a lot more heightened than it now was.”
King and Hynes, 38, will costar in the network’s Holiday getaway Touchdown: A Chiefs Appreciate Story, which will premiere in the course of the network’s “Countdown to Christmas” later this 12 months. King plays Alana Higman, whose Chiefs-obsessed spouse and children hopes to win a “Fan of the Year” contest. Hynes portrays Derrick, the team’s director of supporter engagement. For each a logline, he begins shelling out time with Alana as he is “tasked with evaluating how Alana and her loved ones stack up from the other two finalists.”
The synopsis adds, “As the pair spends time together, it is obvious there is a spark amongst them, but when her grandfather’s (Ed Begley Jr.) vintage Chiefs good luck winter season hat goes lacking, Alana begins to doubt every thing she considered about destiny, destiny and even inquiries her long term with Derrick — until, that is, a very little Xmas magic can throw a Hail Mary.”
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Holiday Landing, which is now filming around Kansas City and inside the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium, will be Hallmark’s to start with partnership with an NFL team. It is a fitting collaboration as the squad has noticed a flurry of new followers due to the fact tight finish Travis Kelce started off courting pop star Taylor Swift in summertime 2023. They publicly verified their romance in September 2023 when Swift, 34, went to her first Chiefs match and excitedly cheered on Kelce, also 34 from a personal suite with his household and mates.
“It truly felt like it was a no-brainer,” Hynes advised Us on Thursday of signing up for the job. “There’s some thing about the two models. The two fandoms are so paralleled and identical in their passion and their purity for what they enjoy. Coming jointly seemed perfect.”
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Patrick Smith/Getty Pictures
Holiday break Touchdown will fulfill romance and sports activities supporters alike just as Swift and Kelce’s romance has. Hynes and King have also been invested in all items Tayvis Country, the unofficial ship identify for the pair.
“I’m not gonna lie, I was really psyched. I’m a Swiftie,” Hunter, whose sister Joey King appeared in Swift’s “Mean” and “I Can See You” audio videos, gushed on Thursday. “To see her delighted with an individual who will make her happy and displays her off can make me so satisfied for her.”
Hynes also viewed the couple’s like story unfold from afar.
“I was viewing with the rest of the globe. I knew all about it,” the Three Adult men and a Child star quipped. “Now building this movie and staying roped into the planet feels like icing on major.”
Holiday getaway Landing: A Chiefs Appreciate Story does not at the moment have a premiere date.
With reporting by Daniel Trainor
