Ella Bleue Travolta, 26 years old: the “daughter of” who will touch all hearts in Cannes

John and Ella Bleu Travolta are getting ready to experience a moment of father-daughter bonding like no other. Both are expected this Friday, May 14 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes for the screening of Night flight to Los AngelesJohn Travolta’s directorial debut. It tells the story of Jeff, a little 8-year-old boy with a passion for aeronautics, who takes off alongside his mother for a one-way trip to Hollywood, crossing the United States. Ella Bleu plays one of the flight attendants.

Presented out of competition in the Cannes Premiere section, the feature film has a particular meaning for the young woman and her father. It is, in fact, the adaptation of the eponymous children’s book that John Travolta wrote in memory of his eldest son, Jett, who tragically died in 2009 at the age of 16 following an epileptic seizure that occurred during a family vacation in the Bahamas.

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This drama had destroyed John Travolta and his wife, the actress Kelly Preston, but also their daughter, Ella Bleu, very young at the time (9 years old), but unfortunately already old enough to understand that their lives would never be the same again. Moving forward as best she could with the weight of this impossible bereavement and the grief of her parents, she managed to get through it by clinging in particular to her dream of making cinema like her parents.

Family photo in Cannes in 2018

As a child, she took her first steps in front of the camera with them and Robin Williams in the comedy Old Dogs, filmed in 2008. Her studies at college and high school completed, she gradually returned to film sets, her parents always at her side. For the Travoltas, cinema is a family affair. In 2018, John Travolta, Kelly Preston and Ella Bleue arrived together at the Cannes Film Festival to present the biopic Gotti in which John Travolta lends his features to gangster John Gotti. Kelly Preston naturally plays the role of his wife, Victoria Gotti, Ella Bleu plays the role of his daughter, Angel.

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The three pose at the top of the steps of the Palais des Festivals with Benjamin Travolta, the youngest of the siblings, born a year after Jett’s disappearance. John, in a tuxedo and bow tie, stands in the center of the photo, his eyes proud, happy to live this special moment with his wife and their two children. The clan is united, united. It seems indestructible.

The disappearance of Kelly Preston

Behind the scenes, Kelly Preston fought against breast cancer, a fight which remained secret until her death on July 12, 2020 at the age of 57. “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost the battle she has been waging for two years against breast cancer,” John Travolta wrote that day on his Instagram account. “She fought courageously with the love and support of many people,” he added, devastated. Grease finds himself without his soul mate after more than twenty years of living together, and a marriage celebrated in 1991. He holds out for their two children, Ella Bleu and Ben, who only have him left, and systematically pays tribute to her every October 13, his birthday.

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The Travoltas have not returned to Cannes since their last climb of the steps as a family, in 2018. Their arrival this year, without Kelly Preston, therefore necessarily promises to be moving, and imbued with deep nostalgia.

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Ella Bleu will be able to count on the support of John Travolta, her pillar, who will walk the red carpet alongside her. Hand in hand, father and daughter will bring back the memories of Kelly and Jett.