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“Every day someone asks me, so I think about it every day. Fat. It was a gift, a great joy to be in that movie, “she told her. Olivia Newton-John a Clarione on his only visit to the country in 2016.
The Anglo-Australian actress died this Monday at the age of 73 and everyone still remembers her as the Sandy from the 1978 blockbuster, that Broadway musical that was adapted into theaters and in which she starred opposite. John Travolta.
The 68-year-old actor fired her with love on Instagram: “My dearest Olivia, you have made our lives so much better. Your impact has been incredible,” the post began.
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“I love you so much. We will see each other along the way and we will all be together again. Yours from the moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!” Travolta wrote along with a retro photo of the singer.
“Grease”, the phenomenon in which it is almost excluded
Friends after that lightning-fast success, the paradox is that Fat was about to end without Newton-John. She herself would have told years later that in 1970 she had made a musical, tomorrowthe group he was part of at the time, and which had been a failure.
Sandy and Danny, or Olivia and John, in a scene from the film.
Plus, she was old enough to play that innocent teenager: she was 28, while Travolta was 23.
The actor, who was already known for always banking his friends and who at the time already had a certain badge due to the fury of Saturday night fever (1977), he played it for her.
“I couldn’t have done the film if I hadn’t met John, because I wasn’t sure I was doing it. He convinced me to do it, “Newton-John revealed in early 2018.
“John Travolta wanted it to be me, we auditioned and it was great. And then I accepted “, he explained in that same interview to Clarione.
August 15, 2018: Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta dance on the red carpet for the 40th anniversary of the “Grease” premiere. AFP photo
The truth is, Newton-John’s career skyrocketed after acting Fat. And at the same time, like any unprecedented phenomenon, it would not repeat such a success.
Not only was the film the highest-grossing film of 1978, but its score spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at number one and spawned three Top 5 singles: Platinum You are what I want -with John Travolta-, Hopefully devoted to you and gold summer nightsalso with Travolta and the rest of the cast of the film.
A friendship lasting more than 40 years
Just like inside Fatits characters Sandy Olsson and Danny Zuko fall in love for a summer, Newton-John and Travolta have remained friends for more than 40 years.
“When you share such lightning-fast, insurmountable success, there’s a bond that always remains,” the actor said. pulp Fiction in 2018, during one of the many tributes for the 40th anniversary of its premiere.
“I was with her during the birth of her daughter, during her divorce, when she lost her sister. And she was the same, during my marriage, when my children were born. A lot of shared memories,” Travolta added.
Another movie. In 1983 they worked together again, on “Two of a Kind”.
At that moment, Travolta said he was very proud of his colleague, who was battling cancer for the third time at the time: “It’s incredible. She hasn’t changed in years and I’m proud of her.”
In 2020 Travolta lost his wife, actress Kelly Preston, who died after a two-year battle with breast cancer. In an interview with PeopleNewton-John remembered her as a “beautiful and radiant light on the world” and said that Travolta was doing “as can be expected when you have just lost your love, your wife and the mother of your children”.
According to Newton-John, Preston’s death reinforced his decision to found the Olivia Newton-John Foundation dedicated to plant medicine and cancer research.
“I have lost too many friends to cancer, family and friends. Having lived with that, this is my dream. This is my passion to see a world beyond cancer,” he justified.
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Source: Clarin
