The world has been entranced with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's relationship ever since she was seen sitting in a box seat at the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri last year to watch him play football.

"Everyone is rooting for them."

The rest is history. The pop star and Chiefs' tight end gallivanted around the world together, and Kelce ended up joining his girlfriend on stage performing at the London Eras Tour date earlier this summer. Their love has even inspired the Hallmark Christmas movie, "Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story." In the movie, Alana (Hunter King) is the third generation in a family of Chiefs superfans, who believe that a special knit hat they own has the power to get the team to the Super Bowl. In turn, they're convinced that the Chiefs have also brought them love. As they family is in the running to win the Fan of the Year contest, Alana falls in love with Derrick (Tyler Hynes), a man who works for the Chiefs and helps determine the winner of the competition.

I spoke to the stars of "Holiday Touchdown" at New York's Park Lane Hotel, which was already decorated for Christmas. During our interview, King and Hynes raved about how people like Swift and teams like the Chiefs bring such unity and togetherness.

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"When I went to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, I just would look around and see everybody experiencing the same thing at the same moment, and everyone was impacted emotionally in a different way," said King about attending the tour in Missouri.

Like Taylor Swift, "Holiday Touchdown" shows how the Chiefs, the spirit of Christmas and a little healthy competition can bring people together. Travis' own mother Donna Kelce even shows up to make a cameo in the film. Oh, and a Chiefs superfan who happens to be a cat also joins in on the fun.

Check out Salon's interview with the stars, who discuss their current Swift era and what it was like meeting Donna Kelce . . . and the scene stealer known as Catrick Mahomes.

The following conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length.

While this story isn’t about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, their romance was likely an inspiration for it. What can you say about the impact of that couple becoming such a cultural phenomenon?

Tyler Hynes: It feels like everybody's rooting for them. That's such a lovely thing, when you have such a universal thing that people are getting behind. There are rare moments like that it seems as of late. [To] have everybody be rooting for them. It feels like a similar feeling, if you're talking about inspiration to the movie. It's kind of what's happening in the movie. Everybody's rooting for her character to get what she wants, to find love, and to really find and reaffirm her faith in this team and this tradition and family and all those wonderful things. While it's not a Taylor and Travis' story, there's obviously an inspiration from their love, as so many other things are.

Hunter King: It truly does feel like everyone is rooting for them. You feel that in this film as well, whether it's everyone collectively rooting for the Chiefs, rooting for us, rooting for Alana – you definitely feel that kind of love. I think that the Chiefs have bottled up that love that they have for each other, and it's just like lightning in a bottle, and everyone wants a little piece of it, wants to learn from it.

Hynes: When you see their huddles, like pregame stuff it just hypes you up, and you're just like, "Yeah, that's a real family."

Alana’s family is closely associated with the Kansas City Chiefs, to the point that there’s even a legend associated with the team and their relationships. Are there any stories that each of your families have handed down that have taken on a life of their own?

Hynes: There's a thing in Nova Scotia, Canada, where my grandparents are from, and it's a food item. It's called rappie pie, and it looks like........

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