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UK:Travolta mania stopped filming on Saturday Night Fever

John Travolta John Badham

John Travolta's star power was so overwhelming it led to the shutting down of filming on Saturday Night Fever.

The Grease star, 72, had become a television sensation through his role as Vinnie Barbarino in the hit sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter when filming began on Saturday Night Fever in Brooklyn in 1977.

The film's director John Badham has now revealed thousands of fans mobbed its locations while he was battling to make the classic movie.

"On our first day of shooting, (fans) almost completely shut us down. In fact, they did shut us down by lunchtime," Badham told The Hollywood Reporter's It Happened in Hollywood podcast.

Recalling the chaos of filming on the streets of Brooklyn, Badham explained the production struggled to capture even simple scenes because of the enormous crowds gathering around its lead actor.

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