He was just a very, very sexy guy,” said Conn. “He just oozed sexuality and he was an ever-ready bunny. It was, however, the late Jeff Conaway, who played Danny Zuko’s right-hand man Kenickie, who was the biggest flirt. Just on-set.” John Travolta and his co star Olivia Newton John in England during the week of release of the film Grease, 10th September 1978. “The chemistry between John and Olivia was real - very, very real… a romance? No, no no. They needn’t as according to Conn it was definitely already present. It’s widely known producers sent Newton-John and Travolta on a blind date to evoke some sort of chemistry prior to filming. Some of the trailers were rocking! It was hot.” “That had really terrific results because there were some relationships that started and, let’s just say, major flirting was going on. “By staying in character all day that gave us the licence to be silly and goofy and horny and flirty, and just have a wonderful, spontaneous improv going all day long,” Conn told The Sun in 2018. As we remember Newton-John today, it seemed fitting to revisit the role that made her world-wide star. A couple of years ago, Didi Conn who played beauty school dropout – and Sandy’s closest ally – Frenchy went into detail about the summer of 1977 and what really went on on the set of the iconic film. Grease – the film responsible for catapulting the careers of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta into superstardom – premiered 44 years ago.
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