The Hollywood star took half within the Cannes Movie Competition together with his directorial debut “Evening Flight to LA”. Surprisingly, he was honored there for his life’s work.
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Hollywood star
John Travolta is at Cannes Film Festival was surprisingly awarded a Golden Palm of Honor for his life’s work. The one from movies like Grease
and pulp Fiction Properly-known actor obtained the award earlier than the presentation of his directorial debut Evening flight to LA. The 72-year-old mentioned he least anticipated that. “It’s greater than an Oscar.”
His daughter Ella Bleu Travolta, who’s within the new film performs alongside, got here to the premiere. The story is predicated on a youngsters’s guide that Travolta as soon as wrote for his son Jett, who died in 2009. The Hollywood star, himself a passionate pilot, tells the story of an eight-year-old on his first flight.
Travolta was on the finish of the Seventies with movies like Saturday Evening Fever and Grease turned a world star. The award additionally closes a circle for him: the gangster movie pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino, through which Travolta performs the skilled killer Vincent Vega, gained the Palme d’Or in 1994 Cannes.