Hollywood Superstar Shares advice to Travis Kelce on Transition from Sport to Hollywood amid retirement plan

The NFL star recently signed on to produce an upcoming movie — and who better than Cena to offer some advice?

Hollywood Superstar Shares advice to Travis Kelce on Transition from Sport to Hollywood amid retirement plan

For a professional athlete looking to make a career transition into Hollywood, there are few people better to ask for advice than John Cena. The pro wrestler-turned-actor has been signed to the WWE since 2001, but began his transition from sports to acting in the mid-2010s. Cena gained acclaim for supporting roles in films like Trainwreck and Bumblebee before taking on leading parts in Peacemaker and the Fast & Furious franchise. He has also continued to wrestle part-time, telling ET in January that he plan to retire in 3 years.

While recent Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce has not yet announced any serious plans to retire from the NFL, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end did just take a major first step towards another possible career in signing on to executive produce an upcoming movie.
ET confirmed earlier this month that Kelce is breaking into the world of movies as an executive producer on the upcoming film My Dead Friend Zoe . The low-budget dark comedy, which stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman, is the first project to take advantage of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act to finance a film.

Kelce and his producing partners, Mi
ke Field and Ray Maiello, are also using
President Joe Biden’s renewable energy tax credits to finance a Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary,
King Pleasure
.

Cena and his
Ricky Stanicky co-star,
Zac Efron, recently sat down with ET’s Cassie DiLaura to discuss their upcoming comedy — and Cena took a moment to offer a word of advice to Kelce on his possible upcoming career change.