John Travolta has his sights fixed on playing a James Bond villain.
“I’ve spoken to Barbara Broccoli (producer of the 007 movies) who loves the idea,” he says, adding that he won’t really “close the chapter on playing villains” until he gets cast as a baddie in a James Bond film. “I would love that. They’re going a different way with their villain in the next film but I’ve spoken to Barbara about it and she loves the idea, so that would be great.”
Travolta also reveals today that following the death of his son, Jett, he feared he might never act again but now has a series of tough-guy movie roles lined up, including playing real-life Mafia boss John Gotti Snr alongside Anthony Hopkins and his own daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta in the crime drama, GOTTI: IN THE SHADOW OF MY FATHER.
Travolta was talking ahead of his West End stage debut next Sunday (February 16) in A Conversation with John Travolta. That event – on the same evening as the BAFTAS round the corner at the Royal Opera House – will see him interviewed on stage at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, by Britain’s top film critic, Barry Norman.
This unmissable event is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear first hand from one of the world’s biggest movie stars about their career and life.Travolta has promised to treat the audience to an intimate evening of anecdotes about his illustrious career, private insights from his life as one of the world’s most admired screen idols as well as taking part in a special question and answer session with audience members.
