Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze’s intercourse scene in “Red Dawn” by no means made the 1984 movie as a result of overdoing it on some substances.
On Dec. 20, Grey was a visitor on “The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter” podcast and recalled smoking “a variety of weed” previous to filming the scene with a drunk Swayze.
“We had been on this, you already know, sleeping bag, and he was nervous or no matter, and he got here into the sleeping bag drunk,” Grey advised host Scott Feinberg.
Jennifer Grey smoked “a variety of weed” earlier than filming a intercourse scene for “Red Dawn” with a drunk Patrick Swayze. (Photo by Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection through Getty Images)
In “Red Dawn,” Grey, Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson and C. Thomas Howell star as youngsters who head to the mountains to plan a counter-attack in opposition to a Russian-led invasion.
“As an actor, you are taking a look at all of your stuff within the script, and you are like, okay. I’m operating. I’m taking pictures. I’m operating. I’m throwing hand grenades. I’m killing myself with a hand grenade. But that is the one appearing scene I get to do the place I’m not doing motion,” Grey mentioned of the intercourse scene.
She known as the shot “one of many extra tender scenes which was, I believed, a part of the rationale I wished to do the job.”
“I used to be smoking a variety of weed in these days, too. And so, I used to be tremendous paranoid, and I used to be scared.”
Grey famous that Swayze “did not know his strains. And then it obtained minimize. And they mentioned, ‘We’ll come again and reshoot it.’ But, in fact, they did not.”
The actress mentioned that her costars “put firecrackers in my door … to prank me.”
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“I used to be smoking a variety of weed in these days, too,” Grey defined. “And so, I used to be tremendous paranoid, and I used to be scared. I did not sleep the entire evening. So once I went in to shoot my large love scene, my large … romantic scene with him, I used to be so offended as a result of I used to be, you already know, all self-righteous.”
Jennifer Grey starred with Patrick Swayze in 1987’s “Dirty Dancing.” (Getty Archive Photos)
Grey wished listeners to “be mindful, I’m tremendous younger actor … actually taking all the things significantly, and possibly a bit annoying … as a result of I wanna do good.”
After starring in “Red Dawn” collectively, Grey and Swayze appeared within the 1987 movie, “Dirty Dancing.”
Swayze handed away in 2009 at 57 from pancreatic most cancers. In April, Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, shared how she felt within the moments after studying her husband had been identified with pancreatic most cancers.
Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze’s intercourse scene in “Red Dawn” by no means made it into the movie. (Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images)
While talking to People about her partnership with the non-profit group Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Lisa went into element about what her mind set was like when she heard her husband’s analysis.
“It was the worst evening of my life,” she advised the outlet. “I do know [Patrick] mentioned, ‘I’m a lifeless man,’ however for me even, that evening, I slept within the hospital room with him on the cot. I felt like a nail was being hammered into my very own coffin. Your life activates a dime, and there is no escaping the truth of what that analysis means. It’s simply terrible. It’s only a dreadful second.”
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Lisa went on to elucidate that by the point Patrick was identified, “it was unimaginable to show round.” She added they had been completely happy “he miraculously managed to outlive 22 months after that.”
Patrick Swayze was survived by his widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, after he died in 2009 at 57. (Photo by Helmut Reiss/United Archives through Getty Images)
Lisa defined “one of many issues that obtained [her] by way of” the time period following Patrick’s dying in September 2009 was the fixed reminder to herself that “individuals do that on a regular basis.”
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“And that is as painful as it’s as a result of I believed, ‘This goes to kill me. Grief goes to kill me,’” she advised People. “But you already know what? It would not kill all people. If they’ll do it, so can I.”
The five-year-survival price for pancreatic cancer has risen to 13%, in accordance with the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2024. However, Lisa says, “we have got to do higher than that.”
