John Travolta Talks Losing Out On Big Roles To Richard Gere

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Setbacks only motivated John Travolta more. On the new episode of Kevin Hart’s show “Hart to Heart”, the actor talks about how losing out on roles to Richard Gere pushed him to take his star-making role in “Saturday Night Fever”.

RELATED: John Travolta Shares Photo Of Daughter Ella Bleu In Costume For ‘Alice In Wonderland’ Re-Imagining “The second indication, if you will, of having a solidity in the movie industry was a director called Terrence Malick,” Travolta recalled. “He directed very important films in the ’70s, and he wanted me for a film called ‘Days of Heaven’, and I screen-tested for it right after ‘Carrie’ and before ‘The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’.” The actor explained that he got the role but couldn’t do it because of his