Al Roker is getting successful connected nan beret action.
The meteorologist jokingly trolled John Travolta connected Wednesday’s episodes of “Today” aft nan character made headlines for sporting different colored berets astatine nan Cannes Film Festival past week.
After Willie Geist interviewed Travolta, 72, and his daughter, Ella, 26, nan show trim to a divided of nan “Grease” character wearing a achromatic beret and Roker, 71, wearing a achromatic beret.
“Al!” Travolta said pinch a laughter successful consequence to Roker’s look.
“Oui oui monsieur,” Roker quipped, arsenic Travolta told nan weatherman to “go for it.”
Roker past joked, “I’m being directed by an award-winning director. I for illustration it!”
“What’s my motivation, John?” Roker added arsenic nan conception ended.
Travolta and Ella appeared connected “Today” to beforehand his directorial debut “Propeller One-Way Night Coach,” which is based connected Travolta’s 1997 children’s caller of nan aforesaid name.
At nan movie’s premiere successful Cannes past Friday, Travolta caused a operation pinch his prime of headgear, rocking a slouchy achromatic beret and spectacles.
The pursuing day, Travolta wore a achromatic beret paired pinch achromatic wire-rimmed glasses at nan film’s photocall and a brownish beret pinch a matching overgarment connected “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday.
On “Today,” nan Oscar victor explained nan inspiration for his much-talked-about outfits successful France.
“I said, ‘You cognize what, I’m making a directorial debut,’ and if you look up connected nan internet, ‘directors and berets,’ each era for 100 years has board wearing berets,” he told Geist, 51.
Travolta added, “I thought, ‘Well, I’m not an character this time, I’m a director. Show up for illustration a director.’ So I did that and that’s really nan simplicity of it.”
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The “Saturday Night Fever” said astatine Cannes that his berets will thief him retrieve his clip astatine nan movie festival.
“I’ll cognize — ‘Oh, that was ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach,’ that was Cannes, that’s erstwhile I won nan Palme d’Or,’ and I’ll person a vividness of it,” he told CNN.
Travolta was presented pinch an honorary Cannes Palme d’Or — nan balanced of a life accomplishment grant — astatine nan arena connected Friday.
He received nan grant successful beforehand of Ella, who has been by her dad’s broadside promoting their movie, successful which she plays a formation attendant.
Travolta welcomed Ella pinch precocious wife, Kelly Preston, who died of bosom cancer at property 57 successful 2020.