Jennifer Grey talked candidly about how the 1984 movie Red Dawn’s sex scene with her late co-star Patrick Swayze went awry.
According to the Dirty Dancing actress, the actor was drunk and under the influence of marijuana when the cameras were rolling, as revealed by Knewz.com.
“We were in this, you know, sleeping bag, and he was nervous or whatever, and he came into the sleeping bag drunk,” Grey stated on a recent episode of the “Awards Chatter” podcast.
“As an actor, you look at what you have in the script and think, ‘Okay. I’m sprinting. I’m shooting. I’m sprinting. It’s hand grenades that I’m throwing. I’m using a hand grenade to murder myself. However, this is the one scene I get to act in that doesn’t involve any action.
Swayze supposedly “didn’t know his lines,” but Grey said it was “one of the more tender scenes which was, I thought, part of the reason I wanted to do the job.”
The scene was ultimately deleted because of issues.
Additionally, the Red Dawn actress said that her co-stars would “prank me by putting firecrackers in my door.”
“I was smoking a lot of marijuana back then, too,” she acknowledged. I was therefore terrified and quite paranoid. I didn’t get any sleep at all. I was furious because I felt so self-righteous when I went in to film my big romantic moment and my big love sequence with him.
Swayze and Grey shared a heartwarming moment during the screen test for the classic movie Dirty Dancing.
“He pulled me down the hall and said, ‘I love you, I love you, and I’m so sorry,'” she recalled. I am also aware that you do not want me to star in the film.
His eyes began to well up with tears. And it wasn’t for the same reason that I started crying. ‘Oh, this guy’s working me,’ I thought. And he goes, ‘We could kill it we could kill it if we did this.'”
Despite the difficulties faced during their earlier collaboration, the two actors found common ground and delivered a memorable performance that resonated with audiences worldwide.
Swayze passed away due to pancreaticcancerat 57 in 2009.
His longtime assistant, Rosemary Hygate, recently shared memories of the fallen star withUS Weekly.
Hygate said: “He was smart, funny, articulate [and] insanely talented in so many different disciplines.
“The world lost an amazing human when he passed too young.”
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