is opening up about working with in his acting debut. “You know what, I’m pleasantly surprised. He’s doing really well,” Nash, 54, told of her costar in the new .

Nash said she’s been working with Kelce, 34, on set, helping the Kansas City Chiefs tight end rehearse lines. The actress said it’s usually “us sitting around eating In-N-Out reading words off a piece of paper.” As for whether Nash has quizzed the Super Bowl champion about his superstar girlfriend, , also 34, the actress played coy.

“Well now, I don’t ask and tell! Let me just say that,” said Nash. Nash was the first to reveal that Kelce will appear in the FX series when she of her and the NFL player on set via Instagram in May. In the clip, Nash tells the camera, “Guys, guess who I’m working with on .

.. dun-dun-dun-dun!” before panning to Kelce, who can be seen behind her.

As the pair burst into laughter, Kelce says, “Jumping into new territory with Niecy!” Kelce shared the post to his Instagram Stories and wrote over it, “Steppin into a new world with one of the legends!” and tagged Nash. On the May 15 episode of his and brother ’s “New Heights” podcast, Kelce said that filming his acting debut was “so much fun,” and praised Murphy as an “unbelievable writer, director, producer, all of the above.” “He seemed very confident that I’d be able to do this, and he kinda injected that in me the first conversation that we had.

So hopefully I don’t bomb this for him,�.