The new film, set ten years after , switches the redoubtable Chili from the movie biz into the crime-afflicted regions of the music biz. It s an ensemble comedy-thriller flitting about a lazy LA with an all-star cast also including Thurman, Harvey Keitel, The Rock, Cedric the Entertainer ( from a long line of Entertainers!") and Outkast s effusive singer Andr 3000.
Importantly, for Travolta, it s not a direct sequel and is, as with , based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. I am not a sequel person; I don t respond to sequels at all, he says. I think the lure for all of us was that Elmore wrote the book and there was this kind of thoroughbred thing.
The idea that there was this book that was a bestseller that happened to be a sequel to the original was all part of the allure. His place in the stratosphere now fixed, even if his box-office clout continues to waver (he hasn t had a bona fide hit since in 1999), you get the sense that what Travolta seeks most from his chosen profession is old-fashioned enjoyment. was a chance to check in with a favourite character and to have a riot on set.
Actors can get very complicated with each other, he sighs. I think we re different, we re upfront. I had fun.
That is what it s all about. All of which seems to contradict that other aspect of Travolta s life away from the private jets, jet pilot s licence and glowing reputation as the easiest-going superstar in the industry: the Scientology. Unlike Tom Cruise, who seems determined to make a stand against those who would mock his belief in Scientology, Travolta sidesteps it.
I guess I have almost always been a positive person, but my studies in Scientology have made me even more positive, is about as much evangelism as he goes in for. Maybe his reticence is due to the crushing failure of his pet project, , based on the science-fiction caper written by the founder of Scientology, L. Released in 2000, it nearly derailed his career for a second time.
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