Earlier than his casting in “Hairspray” was introduced, Travolta took pleasure in exhibiting his display screen assessments to his associates and tricking them into considering they have been actually watching some unknown actress. The actor even had bother recognizing himself when he first got here onscreen in his Edna costume.

“I did not see me in it,” he defined (by way of Collider), “and I examined it on different individuals […] I allow them to look ahead to 5 minutes, about quarter-hour of movie, and I mentioned, ‘What do you consider her?’ They mentioned, ‘She’s enjoyable, she’s pretty, she’s type of cute,’ I mentioned, ‘Good, that is me.'”

His co-star Queen Latifah, who performs Motormouth Maybelle, felt like Edna Turnblad was an actual individual though she knew it was Travolta underneath all of the make-up and costume.

“I imply, he was Edna Turnblad,” she defined to Artisan Information “I received used to seeing him as this woman, this huge previous girl, y’know what I imply, with this curvaceous physique that basically simply moved — and he was capable of transfer prefer it was his. It was cool.”

Christopher Walken, who performs Edna’s husband Wilbur, was not so simply fooled by Travolta’s appearing. “I by no means checked out him like Edna, it was all the time John,” he admitted. Regardless of being unenchanted by Travolta’s transformation, the actor nonetheless had no bother taking part in his romantic curiosity. “I like John loads and I received alongside rather well with him,” Walken defined, “so I feel that simply carried over into Wilbur and Edna.” That is good and all, but when he is making an attempt to say that there wasn’t no less than one second throughout “You are Timeless to Me” that he wasn’t completely transfixed and satisfied by Edna, forgive me if I merely do not consider it.