Jennifer Gray is reflecting on how a intercourse scene with Patrick Swayze of their 1984 movie “Red Dawn” was derailed.
In accordance with the actress, 64, Swayze was drunk, and he or she was “smoking a lot of weed” on the time they filmed the scene that in the end acquired lower.
“We were in this, you know, sleeping bag, and he was nervous or whatever, and he came into the sleeping bag drunk,” Gray, mentioned on the Friday episode of the Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast.
Gray, Swayze, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen and C. Thomas Howell play youngsters who head to the mountains to launch a counter-attack towards a Russian-led invasion of their Colorado city within the motion movie.
“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,” she mentioned of the intercourse scene.
Gray added it was “one of the more tender scenes which was, I thought, part of the reason I wanted to do the job.”
However Swayze — who died in 2009 from pancreatic most cancers at 57 — “didn’t know his lines.”
“And then it got cut,” she continued. “And they said, ‘We’ll come back and reshoot it.’ But, of course, they didn’t.” She additionally shared that her co-stars would “put firecrackers in my door … to prank me.”
“I was smoking a lot of weed in those days, too,” Gray revealed. “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.”
The “DWTS” alum elaborated additional on their scene.
“Keep in mind, I’m a super young actor,” Gray mentioned, “really taking everything seriously, and maybe a little annoying … because I wanna do good.”
Gray beforehand advised the story of how, earlier than she and Swayze starred in 1987’s “Dirty Dancing,” he apologized for the on-set pranks throughout their display screen check.
“He pulled me down the hall and said to me, ‘I love you, I love you, and I’m so sorry. And I know you don’t want me to do the movie,’” Gray recalled. “And he got the tears in his eyes. And I got the tears in my eyes — not for the same reason. I was like, ‘Oh, this guy’s working me.’ And he goes, ‘We could kill it — we could kill it if we did this.’”
As soon as Swayze and Gray did their display screen check, as she put it, “We go in there and he takes me in his arms and I was like, ‘Oh, boy. I’m done.’”
Swayze handed away 15 years in the past this previous September, along with his longtime assistant, Rosemary Hygate, sharing reminiscences of the fallen star to US Weekly.
“He was smart, funny, articulate [and] insanely talented in so many different disciplines,” she mentioned. “The world lost an amazing human when he passed too young.”
Former supervisor Kate Edwards echoed Hygate’s sentiments, recalling, “When you go see a Patrick Swayze film, you know before a single frame is shown that no matter what, he’ll take care of business and he’ll take care of you.”
“It’s that promise and commitment to the viewer that keeps us coming back again and again, and it’s why he’ll remain a movie star forever.”
