In a Super Bowl ad, John Travolta and his daughter Ella recreate a Grease dance scene.
The 66-year-old actor and his 20-year-old daughter performed the hand jive in the Scotts Miracle-Gro commercial with stars.
John and Olivia Newton John danced in Grease in 1978.
In a Super Bowl ad, John Travolta and his daughter Ella recreate a Grease dance scene.
Dance off: Olivia Newton-John as Sandy and John as Danny Zuko dance to Born To Hand Jive in Grease (1978).
The new dance has him and Ella, 20, his daughter with late wife Kelly Preston, promoting the lawn product with other stars.
In the 45-second spot, Martha Stewart, 79, tends to tomatoes in her neighboring garden.
Kyle Busch drives a ride-on lawnmower, Emma Lovewell takes yoga, and Carl Weathers golfs in his garden.
John plays with a phone camera. Ella exclaims, ‘Dad, it’s the red one,’ wearing a black jacket over a black floral print dress for the ad.
The 66-year-old actor and his 20-year-old daughter performed the hand jive in the star-studded Scotts Miracle-Gro commercial.
The pair starts recording after some camera setup debate.
John and Ella dance to Sunday Best, a 2020 TikTok hit by the Surfaces.
The hand jive contest has Ella and John masterfully performing Danny Zuko’s Grease dance with Olivia Newton-John, 72, as Sandy Olsson.
Martha exclaims, ‘He’s still got it,’ looking through her tomato bushes.
Nice moves: Ella and John danced in rhythm to a TikTok song, mimicking the hand jive dance of Grease character Danny Zuko with Olivia Newton-John, 72.
The star-studded ad showed Martha Stewart tending to tomato bushes in her ideal garden.
The Office’s Leslie David Baker shouts, ‘Hey, Travoltas, don’t be Tik-ity Tok-king on my grass!’
John has a 10-year-old son Benjamin with his late wife Kelly Preston, who died of breast cancer at 57 in July 2020.
His 16-year-old son Jett died in 2009 while on a Bahamas Christmas holiday.
Golf yard: Carl Weathers played golf in his backyard with the Travoltas’ neighbors.
Funny guy: The 45-second commercial featured The Office star Leslie David Baker.
Camera ready: Ella started their cameo by helping her dad with the phone camera.
John posted a video of him and Ella dancing in remembrance of Kelly in August.
‘My daughter @ella.travolta and I dancing for mama. One of Kelly’s favorite things to do with me,’ John captioned.
Jazz music played by a piano, bass, and drums was playing while he twirled his daughter.
Olivia, John’s Grease co-star, responded this week to cancel culture warriors’ criticism.
John and Ella danced to Sunday Best, a 2020 TikTok hit by the Surfaces.
After airing on British TV during Christmas, the movie was criticized on social media as racist, sexist, homophobic, and’slut-shaming’
The 72-year-old actress gladly defended Grease against woke millennials on the A Life of Greatness program.
Olivia thought the response was absurd. This 1970s film is about the 1950s.
Got it: Martha said, ‘He’s still got it,’ looking through her tomato bushes.
It was a fun musical and theatrical performance. She added, It’s a silly musical movie.
The musician said people take popular culture ‘too seriously’ today.
“We need to relax a little bit and just enjoy things for what they are,” she remarked. I didn’t view it that way—I believe it’s a fun movie that entertains.
Grease was one of the highest-grossing 1970s films and a Hollywood classic.