Nothing says ’80s Hollywood like the plot of The Experts. The film’s ludicrous storyline involves the KGB kidnapping a young, hip New Yorker – played by John Travolta – in order to teach a bunch of inept Soviet Union spies how to dance.
The centrepiece of the movie is a scene in which Travolta’s character – sporting a questionable mullet and some very tight jeans – happens upon one of his students on a night out. This woman is the only person who can keep up with him on the dance floor, matching him step for step as they shimmy across the room, hips locked together and moving as one. That woman, dancing effortlessly alongside one of Hollywood’s most iconic movers and shakers, was Kelly Preston.
In 1987, while making The Experts, Travolta was an international idol and unmarried, but Preston was not: she was a rising talent hitched to a former co-star, actor Kevin Gage. But the union was an unhappy one, and there was a chemistry between Travolta and Preston that couldn’t be denied.
Even before their first meeting, a mutual friend predicted that Travolta would fall for his leading lady. “She told him, ‘You’re going to meet this girl and you’re going to fall in love with her, and you’re going to want to get married,’” Preston recounted. On her part, it really was love at first sight. “I went for a screen test and saw him across the room,” she recalled. “And that was it.”
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