Jennifer Grey is holding nothing back regarding her rocky past with Patrick Swayze. The star sat down with the ladies of “The View” to promote her memoir when Patrick Swayze came up. Before Grey and Swayze starred together in “Dirty Dancing,” they starred together in “Red Dawn.” Grey said that Swayze would play pranks on her and other castmates during their time on set, and she didn’t like it. “It was just, like, macho, and I just couldn’t take it. I was just like, ‘Please, this guy, that’s enough with him,'” she said.
When it came time to find her love interest in “Dirty Dancing,” Grey said she initially didn’t want Swayze to be in the film. But, he took her aside and apologized. “And he got the tears in his eyes. And I got the tears in my eyes — not for the same reason. I was like, ‘Oh, this guy’s working me,'” Grey told the outlet. “And he goes, ‘We could kill it — we could kill it if we did this.'” As we all saw in the movie, they did have killer chemistry.
When speaking with People in April, Grey acknowledged the friction between them yet again. “I feel like if I could say anything to him now, I would say, ‘I’m so sorry that I couldn’t just appreciate and luxuriate in who you were, instead of me wishing you were more like what I wanted you to be,'” she shared. Who knew?
