(As an aside, could you imagine the handwringing that would occur if a movie called Dirty Dancing were to be popular among teens nowadays?)ĭirty Dancing was set in the Catskills (holla!), and recalled a more innocent America than even that of the 1980's, which seems similarly innocent through a 2012 lens. The film was a big sleeper hit, resonating with audiences across America and becoming the first movie ever to sell more than a million copies on VHS. One of the biggest films of the 80's was Dirty Dancing, catapulting the now-deceased Patrick Swayze to superstar status and making a name for co-star Jennifer Gray, who played the sheltered character Baby to Swayze's Johnny. Looking back, Grey says she should have just accepted Swayze for who he was and had a good attitude about everything.If seeing it was on your bucket list, the Dirty Dancing hotel fire may have put a kibosh on your ability to tick off all your boxes. However, she says that was hard because he was always late to the set.Īccording to Grey, all that waiting around ruined her “emotional preparation” for the scene.
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She wanted to put that behind her and learn how to like working with him again. She says she had a bad experience when she worked with him on a previous movie because he joked around too much. Grey also says she became very ill and came down with food poisoning.Īnother difficulty Grey faced was her relationship with Swayze. She eventually got a replacement, but the new makeup artist also had to leave the crew. Grey had to do her own makeup for two weeks. Another stressor was that her makeup artist had to quit due to a personal issue. When she did get a break and didn’t have a scene, she had to rehearse or go to a costume fitting.
Grey says she was under a lot of pressure because she was in almost every scene. She says Depp helped “wipe out” all her pain.) Jennifer Grey faced her own struggles (One thing that did help Grey was her relationship with Johnny Depp. The weather was also an issue because it not only rained a lot but there was also a period of very cold weather followed by a heat wave. Grey says the filming schedule had to be rearranged to accommodate the disruptions. Furthermore, Swayze fell during a scene and aggravated an old knee injury. According to Grey, someone fell from a ladder, another person broke their toe, someone else fractured their wrist, an actor fainted from heatstroke, and there was a food poisoning outbreak. The crew also suffered a few injuries and illnesses.
Making matters worse, the cast’s rehearsal space was targeted by burglars. On the second day of filming, Grey says the woman who was supposed to play her mother became sick and had to be recast. Grey says Swayze initially didn’t want to say the famous line, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Injuries and illness set the cast back According to her, the dialogue didn’t flow naturally, so she had to find ways to make it work. While the budget was $4.5 million, she says it came from a home video company named Vestron, and they had never made a movie before. She says she is a “mosquito magnet,” so the makeup artist had to put makeup on her in between takes so that the mosquito bites could be covered up.įurthermore, Grey says Dirty Dancing was “an extremely low-budget production,” so she was concerned the movie wouldn’t look polished. Grey also says it rained a lot, and mosquitos appeared after the rain stopped. Grey says the art department had to spray paint the leaves green since they were beginning to turn fall colors. Consequently, the movie’s summer scenes had to be filmed in the fall. The only problem is, the crew couldn’t film until the guests and campers left. Grey says her boyfriend at the time, Matthew Broderick, told her she wasn’t going to get the role of Baby.)ĭirty Dancing was filmed at two real-life resorts (one in North Carolina and one in Virginia). In her autobiography Out of the Corner, she describes the experience as “extremely chaotic” and “cursed.” (Things were bad even before filming. Grey says there were many problems on the Dirty Dancing set. Jennifer Grey says Dirty Dancing was ‘cursed’ Jennifer Grey and Seth Meyers | Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Although Dirty Dancing was a success, Grey says filming was “cursed.” Here’s why. Many moviegoers will never forget seeing the late Patrick Swayze dance with Jennifer Grey. The 1987 film Dirty Dancing was one of the biggest hits at the time.
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