John Travolta is sharing his thoughts behind his viral 2026 Cannes Film Festival looks, especially the colored berets he rocked on the red carpets.

​The 72-year-old actor has become the talk of the town after he stepped out at the premiere of his directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, sporting a white beret on Friday.

​The next day, at the film’s photocall, he again rocked the classy headgear look, this time with a black beret paired with black wire-rimmed spectacles.

​Speaking to CNN, Travolta explained that behind his much-talked-about outfits, the idea was to present himself as a director not as an actor.

​“I said, ‘I’m a director this time. You’re an actor, play the part of a director, look like an old-school director,'” he told the outlet.

​Travolta went on to say, “So I looked up pictures from the ’20, ’30s, ’40s, ’50, ’60s, and the old-school directors wore berets, and the glasses, and I thought, ‘That’s what I’m doing. I’m doing an homage to being a director, so I’m going to play the part of being a director.'”

​The Grease actor shared that he wanted to make the moment memorable.

​“I’ll know — ‘Oh, that was ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach,’ that was Cannes, that’s when I won the Palme d’Or,’ and I’ll have a vividness of it," he added.

​Travolta also received the Cannes Palme d’Or at the 2026 Cannes, which is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film.