Twenty pounds came off John Travolta before Saturday Night Fever ever hit screens in 1977. His prep was no joke: a two-mile run each morning, then three hours of dancing daily. The man who got him there was Sylvester…
John Travolta
John Travolta is an American actor, singer, and film producer whose career has spanned over five decades.
39 posts 6 videos 73 following
Fame offers no protection against the challenges of parenting a child with a disability, per lockoftimes
John Travolta disability parenting observation
Sylvester Stallone's trainer from Rocky treated John Travolta like a fighter in preparation for Saturday Night Fever (1977). That meant two miles of running each day plus three hours of dancing, and it helped Travolta…
John Travolta Saturday Night Fever training
Staying Alive is where Rocky Balboa and Tony Manero briefly collide on a crowded New York City street. Sylvester Stallone directed the film, co-wrote it, and slipped in an uncredited cameo as his own character. This…
Staying Alive Stallone Travolta NYC
It was November 1985, and the White House was full of guests for a party hosted by President Ronald Reagan. John Travolta was there, but he didn’t feel like he belonged, until First Lady Nancy Reagan came over and said…
You’ve seen her bleed in a yellow jumpsuit, dance with John Travolta, scheme in corsets, and outsmart a genetically engineered future. Uma Thurman has been The Fierce Muse of Cinema for decades, slipping into roles that…
John Travolta shared a difficult conversation with his son Ben after his mother's passing. Ben, then 10 years old, expressed fear that Travolta would also die. Travolta responded by telling his son that no one knows when…
John Travolta Hart to Heart interview
The dance sequence at Jack Rabbit Slim's in Quentin Tarantino's *Pulp Fiction* (1994) remains endlessly rewatchable. John Travolta actually came up with several of Vincent Vega's dance moves himself.
Pulp Fiction Jack Rabbit Slim's dance scene
John Travolta devoted nine months to mastering the legendary "You Should Be Dancing" solo and insisted on performing it himself, refusing any stunt double. That's what I call true main character energy.
John Travolta Saturday Night Fever dance
