Jennifer Gray W Patrick Swayze The sex scene in “Red Dawn” was never shown in the 1984 film due to some of the material being overdone.
On December 20, Gray was a guest “Hollywood Reporter Awards Talk” podcast and recalled smoking “a lot of weed” before filming the scene with a drunk Swayze.
“We were in the sleeping bag, you know, and he was stressed out or something, and he came into the sleeping bag drunk,” Gray told host Scott Feinberg.
Jennifer Gray smoked “a lot of weed” before filming a sex scene in Red Dawn with a drunk Patrick Swayze. (Photo by Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
In Red Dawn, Grey, Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson and C. Thomas Howell play teenagers who head into the mountains to plan a counterattack against the Russian-led invasion.
“As an actor, you look at all your stuff in the script, and you say, OK. I'm running. I'm shooting. I'm running. I'm throwing grenades. I'm killing myself with a grenade, but that's the acting scene,” Gray said of the sex scene. “The only thing I can do where I don't make any movement.”
She described the shot as “one of the most tender scenes which I thought was part of the reason I wanted to do this job.”
“I was smoking a lot of weed in those days too. So, I was very paranoid, and I was afraid.”
Gray noted that Swayze “didn't know his lines. Then it got cut. And they said, 'We'll go back and reshoot it.'” But of course they didn't do that.”
The actress said her co-stars “put firecrackers at my door…to prank me.”
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“I was smoking a lot of weed in those days too,” Gray explained. “So, I was very paranoid, and I was scared. I didn't sleep all night. So when I went to film my big love scene, my big romantic scene with him, I was so angry because I was, you know, all self-righteous.”
Jennifer Gray starred with Patrick Swayze in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing.” (Getty Archive Images)
Gray wanted listeners to “keep in mind that I'm a very young actor… I take everything seriously, and maybe a little annoyingly… because I want to do good.”
After starring in Red Dawn together, Gray and Swayze appeared in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing.
Swayze died in 2009 at the age of 57 from pancreatic cancer. In April, Swayze's widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, She shared how she felt in the moments after learning of her husband's pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze's sex scene in Red Dawn was never shown in the film. (Photo by Bob Riha Jr./Getty Images)
While talking to the people Regarding her partnership with the nonprofit Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Lisa detailed what her mental state was like when she heard her husband's diagnosis.
“It was the worst night of my life,” she told the outlet. “I know (Patrick) said, 'I'm a dead man,' but for me, that night, I was sleeping with him in the hospital room on his bed. It felt like a nail had been hammered into my coffin.” Your life turns on a dime, there's no escaping the reality of what this diagnosis means, it's just a horrible moment.
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Lisa went on to explain that by the time Patrick was diagnosed, “it was impossible to change his condition.” She added that they were happy “because he miraculously managed to survive 22 months later.”
Patrick Swayze is survived by his widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, after his death in 2009 at the age of 57. (Photo by Helmut Reiss/United Archives via Getty Images)
Lisa explained that “one of the things she went through” in the period following Patrick's death in September 2009 was the constant reminder to herself that “people do this all the time”.
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“And it hurt as much as it was because I thought this was going to kill me. Sadness was going to kill me,” she told People magazine. “But you know what? It doesn't kill everyone. If they can do it, then I can too.”
Five-year survival rate Pancreatic cancer It has risen to 13%, according to the American Cancer Society's 2024 Cancer Facts and Figures report. However, Lisa says, “We have to do better than that.”
