John Travolta Says He Wants &x27;The World to See&x27; Daughter Ella as a Star with “Propeller OneWay Night Coach” (Exclusive) Tommy McArdle, Carita RizzoFri, May 29, 2026 at 10:57 PM UTC 0 Ella Bleu Travolta in Propeller OneWay Night Coach; Ella Bleu Travolta and John Travolta on May 16, 2026Credit: Apple TV; Aurore Marechal/Getty John Travolta tells PEOPLE that he wants his daughter Ella Bleu, 26, to have "A Star Is Born"type moment with her performance in their movie Propeller OneWay Night Coach John and Ella premiered the movie at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where he received an honorar...
John Travolta Says He Wants 'The World to See' Daughter Ella as a Star with “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” (Exclusive)
Tommy McArdle, Carita RizzoFri, May 29, 2026 at 10:57 PM UTC
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Ella Bleu Travolta in Propeller One-Way Night Coach; Ella Bleu Travolta and John Travolta on May 16, 2026
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John Travolta tells PEOPLE that he wants his daughter Ella Bleu, 26, to have "A Star Is Born"-type moment with her performance in their movie Propeller One-Way Night Coach
John and Ella premiered the movie at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where he received an honorary Palme d'Or
Propeller One-Way Night Coach is streaming now on Apple TV
John Travolta is ready to introduce his daughter Ella Bleu to the world as a movie star.
Travolta, 72, and his daughter Ella, 26, premiered their new movie Propeller One-Way Night Coachat the 2026 Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. In the film, Ella plays a flight attendant named Doris, who meets the movie's lead character, a young boy named Jeff (Clark Shotwell), during a memorable cross-country flight. During an interview in Cannes on Sunday, May 17, John told PEOPLE that casting Ella in that role was ultimately "just kismet."
"Doris is the one that the little boy falls in love with. I said, 'Ella's much more suited for that magical connection that this little boy feels,' " John says. "It was serendipitous that all worked out the way it did. And Ella has this screen presence of Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly that I thought, this is what we need for the Doris part because this little boy ... he did, he fell in love."
"The little boy fell in love with Ella, so there was no acting going on at all," John continues. "And it gave me a chance also to introduce Ella in the light that I wanted the world to see her because I wanted it to be A Star Is Born, and it really was. It's really evident now. People agree with me on Ella in this movie."
Propeller One-Way Night Coach is John's debut as a film director. The movie is adapted from a book he published in 1997 and is inspired by the legendary actor's love for aviation (in addition to acting and filmmaking, John is a trained pilot). Following the movie's world premiere on Friday, May 15, the Cannes Film Festival surprised John with an honorary Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honor.
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Ella Bleu made her onscreen debut as an actor in 2009 in her father's movie Old Dogs. She also appeared in 2019's The Poison Rose, in which John also starred. (Aside from Ella, John shared son Jett, who died at 16 in 2009, and their younger son Benjamin, 15, with his late wife Kelly Preston, who died at 57 in 2020.)
"I think we both put our professional hats on," Ella told PEOPLE in Cannes, regarding whether her and her father's relationship changes when they are working together on a movie. "It's not like, 'Oh, Dad, I don't want to do that.' It's like, 'Okay, what do you think — how was that?' and 'Oh, try this or try that.' And then I would try something, and then he would be super honest, and I would be very honest. So it was very collaborative. There wasn't anything added or anything taken away that wasn't necessary. It was just very natural."
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Ella Bleu Travolta and John Travolta on May 15, 2026
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"And we had worked together two times before, once in Old Dogs with Robin Williams, and then The Poison Rose," John pointed out. "So we were very familiar with being professionals together."
Propeller One-Way Night Coach is streaming now on Apple TV.
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