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The movie will be screened on the beach on
Wednesday to celebrate its 40th anniversary. And fans might get
a glimpse of its star, John Travolta, who is back in Cannes
promoting his new film, "Gotti", about a New York gangster.
In 1978, Travolta, already a global sensation thanks to
"Saturday Night Fever", came to the Cannes Film Festival to
promote "Grease", a huge hit that also made him a music star
with songs from the soundtrack dominating the charts.
"The mid-point was 'Pulp Fiction', so it was 40 year, 20 year
and now today," Travolta reminisced.
"My mother always told me when I was younger: 'Don't rush
things, it's going to go very fast', and boom, here I am," he
told Reuters.
"I've lived a long life but it has really gone fast."
Cult crime flick "Pulp Fiction" won Cannes' Palme d'Or top prize
in 1994, giving a second wind to Travolta's career.
In his new film, Travolta plays John Gotti, a gangster boss who
died in 2002. Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, co-stars as
Gotti's wife and the mother of their son who refuses to follow
his father into the mob.
"He is very different from what I am and who I am and how I
think and my values," Travolta said of playing the gangster.
"It’s a completely different person - that’s something fun to
play."
Getting the film made, he said, was far less fun: "The
challenges kept on knocking us down – different directors,
different casts, different scripts – one was too shoot-'em-up ,
one was too family," he said.
"People like challenges and I was willing to stay with it til we
saw it through."
The Cannes Film Festival runs until May 19.
(Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by Alison Williams)
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