Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze’s intercourse scene in “Red Dawn” by no means made the 1984 movie on account of overdoing it on some substances.
On Dec. 20, Gray was a visitor on “The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter” podcast and recalled smoking “a lot of weed” previous to filming the scene with a drunk Swayze.
“We were in this, you know, sleeping bag, and he was nervous or whatever, and he came into the sleeping bag drunk,” Gray advised host Scott Feinberg.
Jennifer Gray smoked “a lot of weed” earlier than filming a intercourse scene for “Red Dawn” with a drunk Patrick Swayze. (Picture by Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty Pictures)
In “Red Dawn,” Gray, Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson and C. Thomas Howell star as youngsters who head to the mountains to plan a counter-attack towards a Russian-led invasion.
“As an actor, you’re looking at all your stuff in the script, and you’re like, okay. I’m running. I’m shooting. I’m running. I’m throwing hand grenades. I’m killing myself with a hand grenade. But this is the only acting scene I get to do where I’m not doing action,” Gray stated of the intercourse scene.
She known as the shot “one of the more tender scenes which was, I thought, part of the reason I wanted to do the job.”
“I was smoking a lot of weed in those days, too. And so, I was super paranoid, and I was scared.”
Gray famous that Swayze “didn’t know his lines. And then it got cut. And they said, ‘We’ll come back and reshoot it.’ But, of course, they didn’t.”
The actress stated that her costars “put firecrackers in my door … to prank me.”
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“I was smoking a lot of weed in those days, too,” Gray defined. “And so, I was super paranoid, and I was scared. I didn’t sleep the whole night. So when I went in to shoot 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 1987’s “Dirty Dancing.” (Getty Archive Photographs)
Gray wished listeners to “keep in mind, I’m super young actor … really taking everything seriously, and maybe a little annoying … because I wanna do good.”
After starring in “Red Dawn” collectively, Gray 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 Gray and Patrick Swayze’s intercourse scene in “Red Dawn” by no means made it into the movie. (Picture by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Pictures)
Whereas talking to Folks about her partnership with the non-profit group Pancreatic Most cancers Motion Community, Lisa went into element about what her way of thinking was like when she heard her husband’s analysis.
“It was the worst night of my life,” she advised the outlet. “I know [Patrick] said, ‘I’m a dead man,’ but for me even, that night, I slept in the hospital room with him on the cot. I felt like a nail was being hammered into my own coffin. Your life turns on a dime, and there’s no escaping the reality of what that diagnosis means. It’s just awful. It’s just a dreadful moment.”
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Lisa went on to clarify that by the point Patrick was identified, “it was impossible to turn around.” She added they had been completely satisfied “he miraculously managed to survive 22 months after that.”
Patrick Swayze was survived by his widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, after he died in 2009 at 57. (Picture by Helmut Reiss/United Archives by way of Getty Pictures)
Lisa defined “one of the things that got [her] through” the time period following Patrick’s demise in September 2009 was the fixed reminder to herself that “people do this all the time.”
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“And that’s as painful as it is because I thought, ‘This is going to kill me. Grief is going to kill me,’” she advised Folks. “But you know what? It doesn’t kill everybody. If they can do it, so can I.”
The five-year-survival charge for pancreatic most cancers has risen to 13%, in response to the American Most cancers Society’s Most cancers Information & Figures 2024. Nonetheless, Lisa says, “we’ve got to do better than that.”
