Wild Hogs
Travolta Rides with Wild Hogs
"Okay, I've ridden a bike since I was 18, and it was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me," said Travolta. "Then I rode Harleys with the Daytona Bike League several times hitherto the movie. So that's my history."
Bike riding on the set was safe, except for certain costars. "Tim [Allen] was the only one that had spills. And that's because he was showing off, like he likes to always."
Spoiler alert: The ultimate movie biker shows up at the end of Wild Hogs. Travolta takes credit for landing Captain America himself in a cameo. "It was my idea to have Peter Fonda, because I was 13 years old when I saw him on the screen in Easy Rider, and pretty wowed by that, so I thought it would be the perfect classy cherry on the cake idea, to bring him in as the savior of the day again. So I am very fond of Peter and Jane (Fonda), and glad that we used him in the movie."
Like many of his movies, Wild Hogs still requires Travolta to show off his dance moves. Here though, it's limited to teaching William H. Macy a few steps to impress a lady. "The dancing was in the screenplay, actually. We modified it, and made it more about Bill's dance with Marissa [Tomei] than mine intruding. We actually removed a lot of what they wanted me to do, because I thought it was a little arbitrary. So, basically I said I would teach and let him go do his thing, but I didn't want to go out there as well."
It would seem Travolta has had many crises at various points of his life, i.e. the Two of a Kind years. But he claimed it was hard to relate to the mid-life crisis of the film. "Well, we're too blessed to be stressed. The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure, so I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world, I go around the world once a year, I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever, I love it. So I do, that's probably the only thing I identify with my character, is the wanderlust aspect of it."
Wild Hogs opens to theatres on March 2nd.
For the trailer, clips, poster, movie stills and more movie info, go to the Wild
Hogs Movie Page.
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