John Travolta explains new look after Cannes appearance turns heads
John Travolta is trying the half for his directorial debut.
The legendary actor, 72, raised eyebrows at Cannes Film Festival by carrying spherical glasses and a collection of various coloured berets whereas selling his new movie Propeller One-Way Night Coachwhich stars his 26-year-old daughter Ella Bleu Travolta.
But, because the grease star mentioned in a cnn interview shared Monday, he was merely dressed to impress by channeling the look of an creator filmmaker.
“I said, ‘I’m a director this time,’” Travolta defined. “’You’re an actor, play the part of a director, look like an old-school director.’”
He continued: “So I looked up pictures from the twenties, thirties, fourties, fifties, sixties, and the old-school directors wore berets, and the glasses. And I thought, ‘That’s what I’m doing. I’m doing an homage to being a director, so I’m going to play the part of being a director.'”
Iconic administrators which have sported the stereotypical French-styled look embody filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman and Francis Ford Coppola.
Travolta additionally mentioned that his distinct look — which included black, white, navy and brown berets — might additionally assist him to recollect the occasion sooner or later by trying again at photos from the crimson carpet.
“I’ve been around for over 50 years doing movies, but I can’t tell, when I look back, the difference between the events,” he mentioned, noting that now, “I’ll know — ‘Oh, that was Propeller One-Way Night Coachthat was Cannes, that’s when I won the Palme d’Or,’ and I’ll have a vividness of it.”
The movie competition’s inventive director, Thierry Frémaux, surprised Travolta with the honorary Palme d’Or forward of his film’s world premiere Friday.
Wearing a white beret, Travolta was visibly moved by the popularity and clutched his chest whereas accepting the award, saying: “This is beyond the Oscar. I can’t believe this. This is the last thing I expected.”
The Pulp Fiction actor wrote, directed and co-produced Propeller One-Way Night Coach, which relies on his personal 1997 kids’s novel of the identical title. The film follows a younger aspiring pilot named Jeff and his mom as they embark on a cross-country journey to Hollywood. She performs a flight attendant within the movie, which is able to start streaming globally on Apple TV later this month.
Travolta, a flying fanatic who has had his pilot’s license since he was 22flew his personal aircraft to the film’s premiere whereas carrying a navy beret, as proven in a video I’ve shared on Instagram.
