John Travolta’s girlfriend
Just read she persuaded him to take the SNF role.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/12/saturday-night-fever
It was Diana who persuaded Travolta to take the role of Tony Manero. “I got the script, I read it that night,” Travolta recalls. “I wondered if I could give it enough dimension. Diana took it into the other room, and in about an hour she burst back in. ‘Baby, you are going to be great in this—great! This Tony, he’s got all the colors! First he’s angry about something. He hates the trap that Brooklyn and his dumb job are. There’s a whole glamorous world out there waiting for him, which he feels only when he dances. And he grows, he gets out of Brooklyn.’” Travolta remembers answering, “‘He’s also king of the disco. I’m not that good a dancer.’ ‘Baby,’ she said, ‘you’re going to learn!’”
Sadly Hyland died of breast cancer, reportedly dying in Travolta’s arms. Travolta suffered more personal losses after this - his son, his wife Kelly.
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