'I didn't think there could be any more correct person for Sandy in the universe,' said John Travolta about Olivia Newton-John, believing the casting was equivalent to 'putting Taylor Swift in that role today.' VFArchive
is the story of star-crossed Danny and Sandy, but it's equally about the ethos of the street toughs and gum-cracking tarts who populate their high-school world. Carr guessed—correctly, it turned out—that what mass audiences would really want to see was the love story between Travolta and Newton-John, set amid a sea of creamy lighting and finned cars and augmented by a menu of new, radio-friendly pop songs.
The biggest switch came with"Greased Lightnin'," a showstopper for the character Kenickie in the stage version that was given to Travolta's Danny in the film."I have to be completely honest with you," Travolta says."I wanted the number. And because I had clout, I could get the number." scene, filmed over five days inside an actual highschool gym with closed windows—particularly brutal. Michael Tucci, who played T-Bird Sonny LaTierri, fainted and had to be taken to the E.R."We were dying," says Didi Conn."It was my birthday that week, and they got me a cake, and it was melting."
together."There was an energy surrounding him unlike anything I had ever experienced," says Dinah Manoff."It wasn't even lusting. It was being in the presence of something epic. I had never been around a charisma that was at its peak that way. I cannot describe it to you. There is no other movie star I have been around who carried around the energy he did in those days."which would be released that December. He asked some of the cast if they'd watch a preview.
Newton-John was battling her own demon—namely, how to pull off the transition from syrupy Sandy to the leather-and-spandex-clad hussy who directs Danny to"Tell me about it, stud."
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