What was it like having Peter Fonda on set?
John Travolta: It was my idea to use Peter Fonda. I was old enough to be 14-years-old when he arrived on the screen in Easy Rider. It would be like me showing up in a white suit and a black shirt in some dance movie 20 years from now, it has significance. And I knew it would, even though it addresses a certain generation. It worked like a charm. Q. Did the camaraderie ever give way to any one upmanship? John Travolta: Tim is an antagoniser. You have to drop the gauntlet at some time after all those jokes at our expense. He would rev the bike super loud to deafening, and then I couldn’t get off my bike to handle him, so I had to bump into him – lots. I was the bull, so to speak. Q. Was there a lot of improv? John Travolta: A lot. I would say that in every scene each actor had an improvisational take and 90% of them are used in the movie, which was a great thing. Even if the script’s well written there’s something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written wo
