John Travolta Now Owns a Dozen Berets: ‘Males Can Have Enjoyable, Too’

John Travolta has wholeheartedly embraced the beret as his trademark look since his headline-making appearances on the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. At the DGA premiere Thursday of his directing debut “Propeller One-Way Night Coach,” he advised Variety‘s Marc Malkin that he adopted the headwear thought to assist really feel like a director.

“The beret has been around for 800 years,” Travolta advised Malkin. “You know, the army — it’s an old style factor. I checked out all the pictures of me for 50 years and I can’t let you know the distinction. I began to not have the ability to differentiate and I stated ‘well, you’re not an actor actually.’

“So I looked up all the old school directors and they all had berets and sometimes glasses and it was very it was cliché but in a wonderful way — they were probably reflecting painters and musicians of the type.”

Travolta confided to Malkin that he now has no less than 12 of the caps, which he says landed him on the Vogue, GQ and Harper’s Bazaar best-dressed lists from Cannes.

“Guys don’t have enough to do,” Travolta stated. “They’re putting men in skirts because there’s a lack of something there…why not change it up? We can have fun too.”

The “Saturday Night Fever” star additionally stated he helped model his daughter Ella, who has been accompanying him on the carpets and seems within the movie. “We could have done twin berets but today we decided to go Brigitte Bardot.”

Based on Travolta’s 1997 youngsters’s e book, “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” is a one-hour movie obtainable to stream on AppleTV+.

Fashion has been on his thoughts since his early years, Travolta stated. “My brother-in-law worked for Vogue in the ’60s and Harper’s Bazaar and he would style me as a teenager. I had my first bell bottoms, my first wide belt, my first double breasted suit. I looked like Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde. So I’m very aware of how [women] have more options than we do.”