Many of Hollywood’s top stars started making horror movies. There was Johnny Depp in Nightcrawler, Leonardo DiCaprio in Critters 3, Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun, Viggo Mortensen in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, and even Charlize Theron in Demons of the Corn 3.
But John Travolta made it more difficult. The American actor, who celebrates his 70th birthday today and turned down Forrest Gump for good reason we understand, started his film career with not one, but two terrible performances!
In 1975, John Travolta’s first appearance on the big screen was in the obscure horror film Devil’s Rain, starring Ernest Borgnine, Ida Lupino and William Shatner, as Captain Kirk from the Star Trek saga. A very young actor, barely 20 years old at the time and already known thanks to the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter, plays Danny, a member of a satanic sect. We only see him for about a minute on screen, and he’s frankly unrecognizable (and terrifying)…
John Travolta in “Devil’s Rain”
Next year, changing the mechanism of the actor: John Travolta Directed by Brian De Palma in the cult film Carrie at the Devil’s Ball, where he plays the young thug Billy Nolan. Below, a fragment from the performance of the American:
Travolta’s role in Carrey is modest, but allows him to really take off in the cinema. In the process, the actor would take on the role of Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever and become an international star.
John Travolta, now 60, has been starring in the series The Shepherd, available on the Disney+ platform, since last December.
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