John Travolta has wholeheartedly embraced the beret as his trademark look since his headline-making appearances at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. At the DGA premiere Thursday of his directing debut “Propeller One-Way Night Coach,” he told Variety‘s Marc Malkin that he embraced the headwear idea to feel like a director.
“The beret has been around for 800 years,” Travolta told Malkin. “You know, the military — it’s an old school thing. I looked at all the photographs of me for 50 years and I can’t tell you the difference. I started to not be able to differentiate and I said ‘well, you’re not an actor really.’
“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 at least 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 said. “They’re putting men in skirts because there’s a lack of something there…why not change it up? We can have fun too.”
