Grease actress Didi Conn has said she is still close friends with former co-star Olivia Newton-John, 40 years after the hit musical film was released. Conn, who played aspiring beautician Frenchy in the 1978 film opposite Newton-John as Sandy, also revealed there was once an original sequel based at a summer school in the works but it never came to fruition. Olivia Newton-John as Sandy (left) and Didi Conn as Frenchy in Grease (Paramount/Rso/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)She said: “Grease is such a happy movie and I was lucky enough play someone who was a good friend, and I think people respond to that. “And Paramount was watching the dailies and they said, ‘no, we don’t want to do a sequel, this is going to be a nice little summer film’. “And they passed, and then when it was a huge success, John and Olivia were busy and Grease 2 was born, which is very different.”- Press Association

Source: Irish Examiner May 10, 2018 08:15 UTC