John travolta playing a role in christine! Someone help
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rikajessie — 12 years ago(February 13, 2014 01:06 PM)
He does look like Travolta, and some people who watched Carrie thought it wasn't Travolta playing Billy, but the Buddy actor.
Also what I think is kind of cool, Dennis and Buddy play romantic rivals in the first North and South movie, they're both in love with Genie Francis' Brett.
And "Dennis" kills "Buddy" in a duel. -
ncdwbmk6 — 11 years ago(April 22, 2014 07:26 PM)
Buddy (played by William Ostrander) does look like Vinnie Barbarino's "evil twin."
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ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch — 11 years ago(May 07, 2014 06:28 PM)
Buddy purposely looks like Travolta, mainly as a callback to "Carrie" and because it takes place in the late 1970s where Travolta was mega-famous at the time.
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angelosdaughter — 10 years ago(July 13, 2015 01:47 PM)
I can see the casting director saying "Get me a John Travolta type." since Travolta by that time near the height of his fame would have been too expensive.
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thatguy_78757 — 10 years ago(November 04, 2015 01:39 PM)
The Buddy Reperton character is almost IDENTICAL to Billy Nolan, the character played by Travolta in CARRIE.
And William Ostrander, who played Buddy Reperton, does look a bit like a beefed up Travolta, so I can see the confusion.
And the film/ book takes place in 1978, when a lot of young men went for the " Travolta look." -
Lokisgodhi — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 02:52 AM)
When this was made in 1983, Travolta's career was virtually dead. If you look at his page here you'll see he made very few films in the 80s and most of them were rather forgettable. He probably would have killed for a chance to play this part.