Travolta: I Said "Why Me? What Makes You Think I'd Be A Perfect Woman?"

Travolta: I Said "Why Me? What Makes You Think I'd Be A Perfect Woman?"

John Travolta thought for 14 months before saying "Yes."

The decision was a good one, because he makes a sweet, lovable Edna Turnblad, who sings, dances and is madly in love with her husband, played by Travolta's old pal and fellow former Broadway hoofer Christopher Walken, in the third incarnation of John Waters's musical, Hairspray.

The story, as most people know by now, is set in Baltimore during the 1960s TV dance craze and centres on Edna and Wilbur Turnblad and their daughter Tracy (played by screen newcomer Nikki Blonsky), who graduates from outsider to celebrity trendsetter while kicking down racial barriers on local television.

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