Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze
Robert Scott/Photos International/Getty ImagesJennifer Gray He took a trip down memory lane remembering filming a sex scene with him Patrick Swayze In 1984 Red dawn.
“As an actor, you look at all your stuff in the script, and you say, ‘Okay, I'm running. “I'm shooting. I'm running. I'm throwing grenades. I'm killing myself with a grenade,” Gray, 64, said on the Friday, December 20, episode of Hollywood Reporter's “Awards Chat” Podcast. “But this is the only acting scene I can do where I don’t do any action.”
Gray remembers being in a sleeping bag with Swayze, who later died at the age of 57 Fighting pancreatic cancerHe noted that he was “nervous.”
“He came to the sleeping bag drunk,” Gray claimed. “And he didn’t know his lines. And then it was cut. And they said, ‘We’ll go back and reshoot it.’ But of course they didn’t.”
Gray described the scene, which did not end up being made into the film, as “one of the most tender scenes which was, I think, part of the reason I wanted to do this job.”
The film, set in the 1980s, follows teenagers who escape with their friends into the mountains as they prepare for a counterattack against the Russian-led invasion of their city. Gray and Swayze starred in the film alongside each other Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell And more.
While recalling photography Red dawnGray said her actors would “put firecrackers in my door” to “prank her.”
“I think I smoked a lot of weed in those days too,” she said. “And so, I was very paranoid, and I was scared. So 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, right, like, 'Hey, how dare you To be so unprofessional?
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“I wasn't sleeping and I was worried and I felt like this was a problem, and then all of a sudden I was like, 'You know what? You are killing me. “You're killing me on this show,” she continued.
When the film was over, Gray recalled thinking it was “unprofessional” and was reluctant to involve him 1987 Dirty dancing.
“When they started talking about him in Dirty Dancing, I was like, 'Oh, no, anyone but him.' I know. He's a dancer. I know he's a dancer. He talks about it all the time,” she said, adding that Swayze was in the musical. 1975 Goodtime Charlie with her father, Joel GrayAs a dancer.
However, in the end, Swayze played Johnny in the film The iconic movieWhere Gray played the role of a child. The film that followed Baby fills in for Penny (Cynthia Rhodes) As Johnny's dance partner, he produced many memorable moments – including the famous lift.
“I only did it the day I was shot,” Gray said. The Guardian In 2015 about the scene of the accident. “I never rehearsed it, and I haven't done it since. I don't know how all these re-enactors have the courage to throw themselves into the arms of anyone other than Patrick Swayze. It's crazy!”
