John Travolta & Olivia Newton John Are Returning to ‘Grease’ for 40th Anniversary!

Grease, 1978

Excuse me, but Grease was a definite moment for so many of us that we’re completely losing our knees at the idea of John Travolta and Olivia Newton John returning to the epic classic, which catapulted them into icon status!

In an interview with the Mirror, Olivia came out and said that she and John are working on something special to celebrate Grease’s 40th anniversary. Could it be a revival?!

“We are thinking up ways. Nothing to announce yet,” the 68-year-old singer and actress. “Forty years anniversary of Grease, which I can’t believe. Time goes so fast. It is so exciting.”

Can you believe that Olivia almost didn’t take the role?

“I was very nervous about making the film, because I was an Australian, but they said, ‘That’s OK, you can do an Australian accent,’” she said to The Telegraph earlier this year. “I worried that at 29 I was too old to play a high-school girl.” Ultimately, it wasn’t the producers that convinced her. It was John!

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“John was charming and really wanted me to do it, and that was one of the deciding factors,” she said. “He’s a lovely man – we became great friends and he was very helpful to me on set, as I was not an experienced actress.”

Thank heavens John remembered the same story. In a 2012 interview with TheFIX, he said: “I had known Olivia prior to Grease, because she was the biggest recording artist in the world at the time. But I also had a tremendous crush on her! I championed her for this part. I felt like there was no one else in the world that could’ve done it.”

Olivia admitted they both had a crush on each other, which resulted in great chemistry. And over the years, the pair never lost touch.

“I love Olivia, we shared a mega success together, Grease is the biggest movie musical in history and it doesn’t go away,’ he told Daily Mail in 2014. “When people see you and they have tears in their eyes… How can you not love that you give them that gift? It’s a great gift to give people.”

H/T: Daily Mail.