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Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze the sex scene in “Red Dawn” was never filmed in the 1984 film due to overuse of some substances.
On December 20, Gray was a guest at “Hollywood Reporter Awards Chat” podcast and recalled smoking “a lot of weed” before filming a scene with a drunken Swayze.
“We were in this, you know, sleeping bag, and he was nervous or whatever, and he got 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: Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
In “Red Dawn,” Gray, Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson and C. Thomas Howell play 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 think, OK. I’m running. I’m shooting. I’m running. I’m throwing grenades. I’m killing myself with a hand grenade, but this is the only acting scene where I’m not acting,” Gray said of to the sex scene.
She called the footage “one of the more tender scenes, which I thought was part of why I wanted to do this work.”
“I smoked a lot of weed in those days, too. So, I was super paranoid and scared.”
Gray noted that Swayze “didn’t know his lines. And then they cut it. And they said, ‘We’re going to go back and re-shoot it.’ But of course they didn’t.”
The actress said that her colleagues “put firecrackers in my door… to prank me.”
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“I smoked a lot of weed in those days, too,” Gray explained. “And so, I was super paranoid and I was scared. I didn’t sleep all night. So when I went to shoot my big love scene, my big… romantic scene with him, I was so angry because, you know, I’m all smug. “
Jennifer Gray starred with Patrick Swayze in “Dirty Dancing” in 1987. (Getty archive photos)
Gray wanted listeners to “keep in mind, I’m a super young actor … I really take everything seriously, and maybe a little annoying … because I want to do good.”
After starring together in “Red Dawn,” Gray and Swayze appeared in 1987’s “Dirty Dancing.”
Swayze died in 2009 at the age of 57 from pancreatic cancer. In April of Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, shared how she felt moments after learning that her husband had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
The sex scene between Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze in “Red Dawn” never made it into the movie. (Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images)
While talking to People about her partnership with the nonprofit Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Lisa detailed how she felt when she heard her husband’s diagnosis.
It was the worst night of my life, she told the newspaper. “I know [Patrick] said, ‘I’m a dead man,’ but even for me, that night I slept in a hospital room with him on the bed. I felt like a nail had been hammered into my own coffin. Your life is turned upside down and you can’t escape the reality of what that diagnosis means. It’s just awful. It’s just a terrible moment.”
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Lisa went on to explain that by the time Patrick was diagnosed, “it was impossible to turn around.” She added that they are happy “he miraculously managed to survive 22 months after that”.
Patrick Swayze was survived by his widow Lisa Niemi Swayze after his death in 2009 at the age of 57. (Photo: Helmut Reiss/United Archives via Getty Images)
Lisa explained “one of the things we got [her] through” the period after Patrick’s death in September 2009 was a constant reminder to her that “people do this all the time.”
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“And it’s so painful because I was like, ‘This is going to kill me. The grief is going to kill me,'” she told People. “But you know what? Not everyone kills. If they can, so can I.”
Five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer it rose to 13%, according to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2024. However, Lisa says, “we have to do better than that.”
