And he got his wish: His Edna, unlike the greasy Gorgon created by Divine in the 1988 John Waters original or the Kabuki hausfrau rendered so memorably by Harvey Fierstein in the 2002 Broadway musical adaptation, has cleavage and a waist and a kind of geologic sex appeal.
He did not want to resemble a refrigerator or Jabba the Hutt, he said, but Sophia Loren with a couple of hundred extra pounds. Before filming he had costumers, special makeup-effects people, even prop masters repeatedly revising their work to achieve the look he imagined in housedresses, fat suits and irons. His hair was precisely deployed in a center part flip, which made his bangs look like quotation marks framing his face.īecause we were discussing his role as the obese, fashion-challenged laundress Edna Turnblad in the $75 million movie version of the musical “Hairspray,” which opens nationwide on Friday, the subject naturally kept returning to clothing, coiffure and body type. Chatting on Father’s Day in his Spanish-style home here in the Brentwood hills, he was a carefully considered composition in black - blazer, shirt, pants - and crocodile slip-ons. “I wouldn’t have thought of that.”ĭisarming, but doubtful.
“Ooh, what a great idea to match this with a cobalt blue shirt,” he cooed. WE had only just met, but John Travolta, big and handsome and hypnotic, was fondling the lapel of my navy blue blazer.
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