Wanna Disco Dance Like Travolta In Saturday Night Fever?

It may be just another example of a Hollywood star making a long reach to find good things to say about a co-star, but John Travolta has just credited Robert DeNiro as his inspiration to become an actual disco dancer for his role in Saturday Night Fever.

The Hollywood Reporter relays the claim made by Travolta at a press conference for his new action movie Killing Season, in which he shares top-billing with DeNiro.

It had junket journalists reaching for their IMDb apps to figure out exactly which movie DeNiro busted out the moves that so-inspired Travolta. Had they somehow missed Travis Bickle doing The Hustle or a Bus Stopping Vito Corleone?

But alas, Travolta wasn't meaning it so literally. He explained: “He [De Niro] was setting a trend in the United States for a kind of acting that was, if you were going to portray a part, you needed to become that role by studying and actually gaining the knowledge and ability of the character."

So knowing that DeNiro learnt saxophone to portray a musician opposite Liza Minelli in the Martin Scorsese musical New York, New York, Travolta knew that he must learn to get his bump on to play/become a disco-dancing wannabe in iconic '70s clubbing film Saturday Night Fever.

He went on to point out that it took him nine months of intensive training to master those air stabs and wrist twirls.

Seven years after Saturday Night Fever, Robert DeNiro was the subject of a global club hit by Bananarama - Robert DeNiro's Waiting. It's not known if DeNiro includes that song in his sax repertoire.

You wanna dance like Travolta without DeNiro's help? Try this helpful how-to video:

Once your lesson's over, try out your new moves along to Bananarama's DeNiro tribute: