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Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce had some fun during the season finale of their New Heights podcast on Wednesday, July 23, as they reviewed the 1990 Julia Roberts classic Pretty Woman.
The athlete brothers were impressed by the iconic film costarring Richard Gere, giving it high ratings in nearly all of their categories. But when the time came to give the movie a “feminism score,” they struggled to come up with a number.
“I think the only way to gauge it is to flip the script,” explained Travis, 35. “I think we need to make Pretty Man. And we need to have a CEO billionaire woman be so high class that she doesn’t know where she’s going. She doesn’t know how to drive a car.”
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Jason, 37, chimed in with the perfect note, saying, “Travis, you’re living Pretty Man right now. You are pretty man. You’re living your own Julia Roberts straight down.”
Travis, who has been dating pop star Taylor Swift since 2023, burst out laughing and jokingly added, “I’m wearing nothing but a tie when Taylor comes home.”
Travis met Roberts, 57, at a Dublin stop on Swift’s Eras Tour in June 2024, and he joked about the encounter on Wednesday’s podcast episode.
“That’s why me and Julia Roberts — when I met Julia — it felt like we were the same person, so cool,” Travis quipped. “She spoke to me in this movie.”
He continued the bit, “All right. Now it’s all I’m doing. I’m just the NFL stripper. That’s it. Just an NFL hooker, man.”
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Pretty Woman follows wealthy businessman Edward Lewis (Gere, 75) who falls for prostitute Vivian Ward (Roberts) and brings her into his world. The role earned Roberts an Oscar nomination.
And Jason was particularly complimentary of Roberts’ performance in the Garry Marshall film.
“I say this being a very happily married man,” said the retired NFL star, who shares four children with wife Kylie Kelce. “That [Roberts] is a pretty woman in this movie. I mean, and she kills it. The acting is great. She has, like, the accent.”
Jason added of the film, “It’s right up there with probably my favorite romance movie I’ve probably ever seen, which is a short list.”
