Going to the gym to flirt is nothing new. 40 years ago, James Bridges (director of city cowboy and screenwriter of White hunter, black heart) made him get into the shoes of a journalist from Rolling Stone who did an undercover report in a sports center to see how the singles there interacted. At a time when aerobics had been crowned the exercise of the moment, Travolta had to put on some short shorts sports and sweating in a class led by , with whom he ended up falling in love, to be able to write his article. The sensual aerobics class scene from that movie, to the rhythm of the song Shock Me, of and Jermaine Jackson, is one of the most famous moments of the film, has given rise to gifs and now it has been recreated by Jamie Lee Curtis and Jimmy Fallon on the presenter’s television show, The Tonight Show.
Curtis has revived his 1985 style: a jersey with stripes in pastel and gray tones, very eighties and raised in the groin. Combined, of course, with some heaters, the indispensable complement in classes from four decades ago, inevitable in classes taught by figures of the fitness as. The first thing the actress did when she arrived at Fallon’s program was to remember that she is an ambassador for the American Red Cross, whose work in the California fires stood out and for whom she asked for donations and resources. She said that she was even on the verge of collapsing when she arrived at the program, which is recorded in New York’s Rockefeller Center, because she lives in the town that has been the epicenter of the disaster: “I almost started crying. As you know, where I live is burning right now, literally the entire city is burning (…), it is a catastrophe. There is the market where I shop, the school my children went to, many friends have lost their homes… It is a horrible situation.”
After that moment of emotion and memory, the 66-year-old interpreter reviewed several moments of her career with the 50-year-old presenter. He reminded her that she had danced in many of her films and, with that excuse, she decided to recover “an unpublished archive video” of the aerobics class scene. Perfect. In the original version, the session turns into a torrid exchange of hip movements and glances between Curtis and Travolta, and in the sketch of the program, the actress and the presenter added touches of humor and parody: even more exaggerated hip bumps, mobile video calls, a tower of champagne glasses and some slices of pizza eaten in a sexy in full exercise.
The performer, who was born in Santa Monica and grew up surrounded by Hollywood royalty—her parents were (Psychosis) y Tony Curtis (With skirts already crazy) —, has spoken openly about his problems with food and life. “I’ve been putting my stomach in since I was 11 years old,” he admitted during the promotion of Everything at once everywhere, film that in 2023 led her to win the Oscar for best supporting actress.
In fact, he has explained on several occasions his problems with opiates, which arose as a result of the pressure he felt for his physique. In an interview with in 2019, he stated that he became hooked on the painkiller Vicodin after filming Perfect: “The first time I took it was when I had plastic surgery on my eyes. I was rolling Perfect and Gordon Willis, the great cameraman, looked at me and said he wasn’t going to film me that day. I was bloated that day, for some reason. I felt mortified. Immediately after that movie I went to have surgery. And that was when I discovered Vicodin and with that the cycle of addiction began.” This has subsequently led her to want to talk about her addictions and to request photo shoots in which she is shown without retouching.
Now, with two Golden Globes and an Oscar on his resume, Curtis is experiencing a great professional moment — in 2024 he participated in the award-winning series The Bear and in the renowned film The last Showgirl, directed by Gia Coppola and starring Pamela Anderson—and faces a 2025 full of projects: the spy movie Spychosis, with John Savage; the series Scarpetta, about a forensic pathologist who solves crimes, alongside Nicole Kidman and Ariana DeBose; the movie about politics Ella McCay, directed by James L. Brooks; Freakier Friday, with , and it is also rumored that he could lead the remake of the series A crime has been written.
