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John Travolta stars in a new Super Bowl ad for T-Mobile alongside Zach Braff and Donald Faison and pays tribute to Olivia Newton-John, who passed away six months ago at the same time.
The 68-year-old Pulp Fiction actor performed a parody of Grease’s hit song Summer Nights with the two Scrubs actors.
In the commercial, Travolta, who starred opposite Newton-John in the 1978 film Grease, has just moved into the neighborhood where Braff, 47, and Faison, 48, live.
As the Saturday Night Fever star laments the difficulties of setting up the internet at home, Faison and Braff show up and sing along with the star to the hit song.
They convince Travolta that setting up his internet with T-Mobile will be easy as they sing the song.
TV Commercial: John Travolta stars in the Super Bowl commercial for T-Mobile where he, Zach Braff and Donald Faison sing a parody of Grease’s Summer Nights
He then ends the song by striking a pose that resembles one associated with him through his movie Saturday Night Fever.
Braff and Faison discussed working with the two-time Academy Award nominee during an interview with People.
“Listen, I have a really hard time meeting other actors or peers and things like that,” Faison admitted. “I get excited for anyone and everyone, but I’ll tell you this: if you’re in my top five, top 10, I’m going to go crazy. Travolta is in my top five and I went nuts.
Braff added that he used to have a Welcome Back lunch box, Kotter. Travolta starred in the sitcom from 1975 to 1979, and is considered her breakout role.
“We had a chat earlier,” Braff continued. “I told him, ‘Donald, calm down. Don’t start asking questions about the movies until we’ve got this figured out.'” Ten seconds later, he starts asking questions about Face/Off. I say, “Brother, we had an argument.”
The couple spent two days filming the ad alongside Travolta, who they called “generous” with his time and stories. She even helped the couple pull off the dance moves in the commercial.
“We have an amazing choreographer and fill-in dancers who are teaching us, but then John does it and you’re like, ‘Oh, how can I look like that?'” Braff explained. “And it’s particularly the movements that we’re paying homage to in Grease.”
Travolta played Danny Zuko, the bad boy of Rydell High School, in the hit film alongside Newton-John, who died last year at age 73.
Summer Nights: The 68-year-old Pulp Fiction actor performed a parody of Grease’s hit song Summer Nights with the two Scrubs actors.
Helping out a new neighbor: As the Saturday Night Fever star laments the difficulties of setting up the internet at home, Faison and Braff show up and sing along with the star to the hit song.
Saturday night fever? He then ends the song by striking a pose that resembles one associated with him through his movie Saturday Night Fever.
She passed away in August of last year after a 30-year long battle with breast cancer.
Talking with him daily telegraph In Australia, Olivia’s husband, John Easterling, 70, who married Olivia in 2008, recently said that despite the difficulties of her illness, she spent the end of her life “at peace”.
‘She was very clear and very alive and very conscious and pain free. So there was a quality of life there at that time that I think is very critical.”
Working together: Braff and Faison discussed working with the two-time Academy Award nominee during an interview with People
Donald Faison: ‘I get excited for each and every one, but I’ll tell you this: If you’re in my top five, top 10, I’m going to go nuts. Travolta is in my top five and I went crazy,” Faison said.
Gone too soon: Travolta played Rydell High School bad boy Danny Zuko in the hit film alongside Newton-John, who died last year at 73.
Long Battle: She passed away in August of last year after a 30-year long battle with breast cancer.
Olivia had breast cancer three times, first diagnosed in 1992, before it returned in 2013 and again in 2017, eventually spreading to her spine.
Travolta paid his respects to the star with a social media post at the time that read, “My dearest Olivia, you made our lives so much better.” Your impact was incredible. I love you a lot.’
He added: ‘We’ll see each other down the road and we’ll all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!
Multiple battles: Olivia had breast cancer three times and was first diagnosed in 1992, before it returned in 2013 and again in 2017, eventually spreading to her spine (pictured with Travolta in 2018)