Jennifer Grey has confessed to "smoking a lot of weed" before filming a sex scene with her on-screen love interest, Patrick Swayze. However, the 64 year old isn't referring to their iconic scenes in the cult Hollywood classic Dirty Dancing , which was released in 1987. Interestingly, it wasn't their first film together; they were both cast in the 1984 movie Red Dawn.
The action-packed film follows a group of teenagers who escape to the mountains when Soviet and Cuban troops invade their small Colorado town. Kate Middleton shares moving message on 'finding space for kindness and forgiveness' Justin Baldoni 'dropped from talent agency' amid Blake Lively's sexual harassment complaint Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast , Jennifer revealed that the script called for a sex scene between her and Patrick. But when it came time to film the scene, Patrick seemed to be just as nervous - as she claimed that he showed up to set drunk.
She explained: "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.' 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. Keep in mind, I'm super young actor. '[I was] really taking everything seriously, and maybe a.