Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze: Drunk and stoned in sex scene

Jennifer Gray (64) and Patrick Swayze (1952-2009) were a dream couple in front of the camera in “Dirty Dancing” in 1987 – but not behind it. Their tense relationship began three years before the cult film. In 1984, Gray and Swayze played together for the first time in The Red Tide. And Jennifer Gray remembers her sex scene with horror. She was now unpacking it.

They filmed their love scene in a sleeping bag. And Patrick Swayze allegedly slipped in drunk, according to Jennifer Grey. Accordingly, the scene went badly. The makers promised to shoot the sequence again later. But apparently that didn’t happen.

But Jennifer Gray wasn’t quite fit for the love scene either. She admitted that she smoked weed all the time back then. That’s why she was “super paranoid.” Because her neighbors played a prank on her with fireworks, she didn’t sleep all night.

“How dare you be so unprofessional?” Jennifer Gray thought of her colleague. Swayze is also said to have been “bossy” because director John Milius (80) had instilled in him that he was the alpha male.

Today, Jennifer Gray describes her anger as “self-righteous.” She really wanted to do well as a young actress. She described her love scene as the only quiet moment in an action film in which she otherwise only had to run and fight. “The Red Tide” is about a group of teenagers who have to fend off an invasion by Russian soldiers.

Three years later, Jennifer Gray learned that Patrick Swayze was being considered for the male lead in “Dirty Dancing.” “Oh no, everyone but him,” she thought to herself.

During the test recordings for the dance film, she asked Patrick Swayze about the unsuccessful love scene in “The Red Tide”. He also apologized.