Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayzes The sex scene in “Red Dawn” was never made into the film in 1984 because it was overdone with some of the substances.
On December 20th, Gray was a guest at “The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter” podcast and recalled smoking “a lot of weed” before filming the scene with a drunken Swayze.
“We were in this sleeping bag, you know, and he was nervous 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 for Red Dawn with a drunk Patrick Swayze. (Photo by Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
“Red Dawn” stars Grey, Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson and C. Thomas Howell as teenagers who go to the mountains to plan a counterattack against a Russian-led invasion.
“As an actor, you look at all your stuff in the script and think, okay. I’m running. I shoot. I’m running. I throw hand grenades. I am “I kill myself with a hand grenade. But that’s the only acting scene I can do where I don’t do any action,” Gray said of the sex scene.
She called the shot “one of the more tender scenes, which I think was one of the reasons I wanted to do the job.”
“I also smoked a lot of weed back then. So I was super paranoid and scared.”
Gray noted that Swayze “didn’t know his lines. And then it was cut off. And they said, ‘We’ll come back and shoot it again.’ But of course they didn’t do that.
The actress said that her co-stars “put firecrackers in my door… to play a prank on me.”
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“I smoked a lot of weed back then too,” Gray explained. “And so I was super paranoid and scared. I didn’t sleep all 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 alongside Patrick Swayze in “Dirty Dancing” in 1987. (Getty archive photos)
Gray wanted listeners to “keep in mind that I’m a super young actor… who really takes everything seriously and maybe is a little annoying… because I want to do good.”
After starring together in “Red Dawn,” Gray and Swayze appeared in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing.”
Swayze died of pancreatic cancer in 2009 at the age of 57. In April, Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, shared how she felt in the moments after learning her husband had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze’s sex scene in Red Dawn never made it into the film. (Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images)
When speaking with People Through her partnership with the nonprofit organization Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Lisa detailed her state of mind upon hearing her husband’s diagnosis.
“It was the worst night of my life,” she told the outlet. “I know (Patrick) said, ‘I’m a dead man,’ but even I slept on the cot with him in the hospital room that night. I felt like a nail was being driven into my own coffin.” Her life is spinning and there is no escaping the reality of what this diagnosis means. It’s just a terrible moment.
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Lisa further explained that at the time Patrick was diagnosed, it was “impossible to turn around.” She added they were lucky: “He miraculously managed to survive 22 months afterwards.”
Patrick Swayze is survived by his widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, after he died in 2009 at the age of 57. (Photo by Helmut Reiss/United Archives via Getty Images)
Lisa explained that “one of the things that got them through the period following Patrick’s death in September 2009” was the constant reminder that “people do this all the time.”
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“And that’s just as painful because I thought, ‘This is going to kill me. Grief is going to kill me,'” she told People. “But you know what? It doesn’t kill everyone. If they can do it, I can do it too.”
The five-year survival rate for Pancreatic cancer has risen to 13%, according to the American Cancer Society’s 2024 Cancer Facts & Figures. However, Lisa says, “We have to do better.”
