‘Grease’ Costar John Travolta Reacts to Olivia Newton-John’s Death: ‘You Made All of Our Lives So Much Better’
08.08.2022 - 23:37
/ usmagazine.com
Summer love forever. John Travolta gave a touching tribute to his Grease costar Olivia Newton-John following her death on Monday, August 8.
“My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better. Your impact was incredible. I love you so much,” Travolta, 68, wrote via Instagram post alongside a photo of the Face Off star. “We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!”
Travolta and Newton-John first came together while portraying Sandy and Danny in the iconic 1978 musical Grease. The two characters fall in love during summer vacation and have to adjust to life together when Sandy suddenly transfers to Danny’s school.
Grease was successful both critically and commercially, becoming the highest-grossing musical film ever at the time, while the soundtrack album landed as the second best-selling record of the year in the U.S. Newton-John also nabbed an Oscar nomination for her character’s song “Hopelessly Devoted to You” at the 51st Academy Awards.
Following their time as America’s favorite onscreen couple, Travolta and Newton-John remained close, even costarring in the 1983 film Two of a Kind together.
In August 2019, the Pulp Fiction actor opened up about the bond he and the Golden Globe winner had made over the years. “We were together not that long ago, about three months ago, and we text each other all the time,” he exclusively told Us Weekly at the premiere of his film The Fanatic. “It’s wonderful … If I go to see her in her show, we go backstage and hang out, and I watch the show and all that. If I go to see her personally, we usually have dinner and catch up. And recently we’ve been talking about trying to do something
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