“Every day someone asks me about the subject, so I think about it every day Fat. It was a gift, a huge joy to be in that film,” she told her. Olivia Newton John a clarion in 2016.
The Anglo-Australian actress, who passed away on August 8 at the age of 73, will always be remembered as Sandy from the successful 1978 film, that Broadway musical adapted to the cinema and in which she starred alongside John Travolta.
Who shouldn’t remember that film with great fondness is actor henry winklerone of the handsome faces of 70s Hollywood.
Winkler sat down with Chris Wallace in an interview for CNN and revealed that it was a “damn stupid” for stepping down from the iconic lead role of danny zuko in “Grease”.
After a decade of playing the legendary character of Arthur Fonzarelli, Fonzie, in “Happy Days”, from 1974 to 1984, Winkler didn’t get many offers for other high-impact roles.
But in ’77, while working on “Happy Days,” Winkler was offered the lead role in “Grease” about John Travolta, but declined for fear of being considered.
“I’m a fucking fool” the 77-year-old actor now said. “I only realized it years later,” he acknowledged.
And he left a sentence for the story: “I’m going home and having a Diet Coke. John Travolta, who shot the film, goes home and buy a plane“.
“Grease”, the phenomenon in which Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are almost excluded
Both Travolta and Olivia Newton-John were about to be barred from casting ‘Grease’. She herself will tell years later that in 1970 she had filmed a musical, Tomorrowthe group he was a part of at the time, and which had been a failure.
Plus, she was too old to play that innocent teenager: he was 28, while Travolta was 23.
Both were friends and the actor, who was already known for always breaking bankruptcy on his friends and by that time already had a certain veneer to the furor of Fever Saturday night (1977), played for her.
“I couldn’t have done the film if I hadn’t met John, because I wasn’t sure I would. He convinced me,” Newton-John revealed in an interview. interview with Clarin in early 2018.
“John Travolta wanted me to be, and we auditioned and it went really well. E so I accepted”detailed in the same note.
What is certain is that Newton-John’s career skyrocketed after starring in 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 soundtrack spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at number one and placed three Top 5 singles on the chart: platinum You are what I want -with John Travolta-, I hope devoted to you and gold Summer nightseven with Travolta and the rest of the film’s cast.
as well as inside Fattheir characters Sandy Olson and Danny Zuko in love over a summer, Newton-John and Travolta remained friends for more than 40 years. A whole story that perhaps would have been another if Henry Winkler had said: “I accept”.
Source: Clarin
