Jennifer Grey Shares What She Would Tell Late 'Dirty Dancing' Co-Star Patrick Swayze Today (Exclusive)
05.05.2022 - 00:39
/ etonline.com
Jennifer Grey knows what she'd say to Patrick Swayze if she could see him today. ET spoke with the 62-year-old actress following the release of her memoir, , and she reflected on her relationship with her dearly departed co-star, and shared what she wishes she could tell him now. Swayze died in 2009 after a battle with cancer."'Look what we did,'" Grey said of her would-be message to the late actor, who played Johnny Castle in the iconic 1987 flick.
«We were playing kids and we were really young, in terms of where I sit now and where he would be now. With that kind of distance to be able to just say, 'Look, we did something crazy. It was so hard and we did it.'»Grey, who starred as Baby in the movie, went on to praise Swayze as «such a good man, such a kind person.»«He's just a good guy.
Everybody loved him… If we could have just laughed today and been like, 'Look at us. We're just old people now. Look what we did when we were younger,'» she said.
«I am so grateful is what I am. I am so grateful to have had him as my Johnny... I just never had a man show up for me the way he did and that was something I will never forget.»Initially, though, Grey wasn't sold on having Swayze play her romantic interest in the film.«We had done together, and that was not my kind of movie. It was this action movie… and it was just so, so stressful.
All the guys were being just a guys' club, they were pulling pranks. I was just young and scared and a fish out of water, because that's just not my kind of thing,» Grey recalled of the 1984 film. «By the time we got to doand they wanted to bring him in, I said, 'Oh god, no.