Jennifer Gray smoked a lot of cigarettes before her sex scene with Patrick Swayze in “Red Dawn”.
Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze’s The 1984 film was never made because the sex scene in “Red Dawn” was too much in some material.
On December 20, Gray visited “The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards” talk podcast and recalled smoking “a lot of weed” before filming the scene with a drunken Swayze.
“You know, we were in this sleeping bag and he was upset or whatever 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 with drunken Patrick Swayze for Red Dawn. (Photo by Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
“Red Dawn” stars Gray, Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson and J. Thomas Howell as teenagers who head into the mountains to plan a counterattack against a Russian-led invasion.
“As an actor, you look at all your stuff in the script and you’re like, OK. I’m running. I’m shooting. I’m running. I’m throwing grenades. I killed myself with a grenade, but that’s the only acting scene I can do where I’m not moving,” Gray said of the sex scene.
He called the shoot “one of the most tender scenes, which I think was one of the reasons I wanted to do this.”
“I also smoked a lot in those days. So I was super paranoid and scared.”
Gray noted that Swayze “didn’t know his lines. Then it was cut. They said, ‘We’re going to go back and redo it.’ But of course they didn’t.”
The actress said that her actors “put firecrackers at my door to make fun of me”.
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“I smoked a lot of weed in those days, too,” Gray explained. “So I was super paranoid and scared. I didn’t sleep all night. So when I went in to do my big love scene, my big… romantic scene with him, I was so angry because I, you know, everybody’s self-righteous.”
Jennifer Gray co-starred with Patrick Swayze in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. (Getty Archive Photos)
Gray asked the audience to “remember that I’m a very young actor … I take things really seriously and maybe it’s a little annoying … because I want to do good.”
Gray and Swayze co-starred in 1987’s Dirty Dancing after starring in Red Dawn.
Swayze died of pancreatic cancer in 2009 at the age of 57. In April, Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, shared her feelings after learning that her husband had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze’s sex scene in Red Dawn was never filmed. (Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images)
While speaking People of her partnership with the nonprofit Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Lisa detailed what her husband’s mindset was when she heard of his diagnosis.
“It was the worst night of my life,” he said. “I know (Patrick) said, ‘I’m a dead man,’ but for me, even that night in the hospital room, I lay in bed with him. I felt a nail in my own coffin. Your life turns on a dime and there’s no escaping the reality of what that diagnosis means.”
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Lisa later explained that until Patrick was diagnosed, “there was no going back.” He added that they were lucky “he miraculously managed to survive for 22 months after that.”
Patrick Swayze died in 2009 at the age of 57 and is survived by his widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze. (Photo by Helmut Reiss/United Archives via Getty Images)
Lisa explained that “one of the things that happened” in the time since Patrick’s death in September 2009 was reminding herself that “people do this all the time.”
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“And it’s as painful as it is painful because, ‘This is going to kill me.’ The grief will kill me,” he said. “But you know what? It doesn’t kill everyone. If they can do it, so can I.”
The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer 13% by 2024, according to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts and Figures. However, Lisa says, “we have to do better than that.”
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