If there was something a little creepy about John Travolta’s behaviour at the 2015 Oscars, it was totally wrong. After the veteran US actor’s chin-grabbing antics while presenting an award with Frozen’s Idina Menzel were “revealed” by his representative to have been planned in advance, actor Scarlett Johansson has issued a statement suggesting that photographs of the pair sharing an apparently awkward red carpet embrace did not paint a true picture.
“There is nothing strange, creepy or inappropriate about John Travolta,” Johansson told the Associated Press on Thursday, in an apparently unprompted statement in which she referred to her former co-star as a “class act.”
The statement continued: “The image that is circulating is an unfortunate still-frame from a live-action encounter that was very sweet and totally welcome. That still photo does not reflect what preceded and followed if you see the moment live. Yet another way we are misguided, misinformed and sensationalised by the 24-hour news cycle. I haven’t seen John in some years and it is always a pleasure to be greeted by him.”