Travolta knows how straight men like their drag queens

Somebody stop John Travolta! The man is digging himself deeper and deeper into the crazitrench where Tom Cruise and friends have set up camp. First there was this, where he said, "I still think that if you analyze most of the school shootings, it is not gun control. It is psychotropic drugs at the bottom of it." Glad someone straightened that out for us.

But now, I'm starting to get really concerned for the Wild Hogs star. Apparently, while preparing to shoot Hairspray, he asked his Wild Hogs co-stars what kind of body type Edna Turnblad should have. I guess Tim Allen really is the go-to guy for such affairs, huh?

He tested prospective personae of his feminine self on the set of his recent buddy comedy Wild Hogs because, he says, he wanted to hear "from straight men how they would like to see a man be a woman." The Edna that eventually took shape might be described as a dancing elephant with a wasp waist.

"I said, 'If you give me a big waist, then I become Grandma... You can make her ass as big as you want, her tits as big as you want, but if you don't bring her in'"--here he mashes in his own solid middle with the heels of his hands--"'I can't play what I want to play.'

It doesn't get more classy than that, people. He needs to play what he wants to play! And finally:

At the end of the interview, after the tape recorder has been turned off, he is posed one last question: Is he bothered by the rampant rumors about his sexuality, and does he think they've affected his career? "No and no," says Travolta casually. "What affects your career is the quality of the product." Besides, he adds with his typical confidence, "I don't think anyone can hurt me."

And with product like this, what could go wrong?



[via Defamer]