Whereas the 2 are well-known romantic icons from Soiled Dancing, their first try at capturing magic on display screen was a really bumpy one.
Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze are ceaselessly entrenched within the annals of romance cinema with their roles in Soiled Dancing. Nonetheless, they’d truly couple up a couple of years earlier within the motion thriller Crimson Daybreak in 1984. Gray would not too long ago seem on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast and recount a time they had been filming a scene the place their characters had been alleged to snuggle up in a sleeping bag and turn out to be intimate with one another. The chemistry between the 2 stars of their later provocative hit would resonate with audiences, however their first try and make love on display screen grew to become so anxiety-induced that Gray stated Swayze had began the scene pretty inebriated.
In accordance with Entertainment Weekly, Gray confessed, “We were in this, you know, sleeping bag and he, I guess, was nervous or whatever. And he came into the sleeping bag drunk, and he 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.” Gray additionally admitted that her expertise outdoors of the manufacturing contributed some stress for this shoot for some attention-grabbing causes. She defined, “I was smoking a lot of weed in those days, too, and so I was super paranoid, and I was scared. So I didn’t sleep the whole night. So when I went in to shoot my big love scene, my big death-scene love scene, romantic scene with him, I was so angry because I was all self-righteous. I was like, ‘How dare you be so unprofessional?’”
She continued to expound that the state of affairs snowballed, “I didn’t get to sleep, and I was anxious and felt like it was a problem. And then all of a sudden I was like, ‘You know what? You’re killing me.’ …And he was also super bossy because he took it on. Like, [director] John Milius said to him, ‘You know, you’re the leader and you have to be alpha.’” Then, she concluded, “The whole thing was just — it was just not my scene, the whole movie. So I was trying to hang in there.”
The expertise positively put her off on the consideration of working with Swayze once more for Soiled Dancing, “By the time that movie was over, I was like, ‘This guy is not professional. He is killing me.’ And then when they started talking about him for Dirty Dancing, I was like, ‘Oh, oh no, anybody but him.’”
