Apparently Olivia Newton-John didn’t think “Grease 2” was all that slick.
The singer-actress appeared on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” on Tuesday night and, like most sane people, panned the 1982 sequel to her 1978 blockbuster.
Asked by host Andy Cohen what she thought of the sequel, Newton-John replied, “Not a lot.”
The actress did note that she had been approached about appearing in the sequel.
“They did ask us,” she revealed to Cohen. “I think they approached [“Grease” co-star John Travolta] and I to do it, and it didn’t happen, and I didn’t think it was gonna happen, and then they made it with other people. So that’s my memory of it.”
Those “other people” would be Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield, who attempted to carry the franchise forward as Michael Carrington and Stephanie Zinone.
While the original “Grease” would become a cherished favorite among moviegoers, the sequel fared considerably worse, taking in less than a tenth of the original’s $188 million lifetime gross, according to Box Office Mojo.
Critically, the “Grease” sequel didn’t do much better. The 1982 film has an anemic 32 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to 77 percent for the original.
Watch Olivia Newton-John say what the rest of us were thinking in the video.