Jennifer Gray opened up about her experience working with Patrick Swayze on the 1984 film. Red dawn.
During their conversation about The Hollywood Reporter Awards Talk On the podcast, Gray recalled filming their first love scene.
She said, “We were in this, you know, sleeping bag and he, I guess, was nervous or something. And he came into the sleeping bag drunk and didn’t know his lines. And then they cut him off. And they said, ‘We’ll come back and We’ll reshoot it.’ But of course they didn’t.”
At the time, Gray was also dealing with his own anxiety, fueled by insomnia and paranoia about smoking marijuana. “I was very angry because I was all self-righteous. I thought, ‘How dare you be so unprofessional?'” she said.
Speaking about Swayze’s initial attitude, Gray recalled: “I was like, ‘You know what? You’re killing me. …And he was also super bossy because he took care of it. As, [director] John Milius told him, ‘You know, you’re the leader and you have to be the alpha.'”
Additionally, Gray was hesitant to work with Swayze again, saying, “When they started talking about him for Dirty Dancing, I thought, ‘Oh, oh no, anyone but him.'”
However, they were paired in the 1987 classic. dirty dancingwhere their undeniable chemistry captivated everyone.
Now, speaking of a potential dirty dancing On the sequel, Gray said: “They’ve been adamant about doing it, and I’ve been adamant about respecting the original, out of respect for Patrick… and generations of fans.”
“There’s no way for it to be a part of this unless it feels true. And what I mean by true is that it has to feel like it’s the original intention with the same clarity of vision about important things.” He added more.
