Jennifer Gray Shares Soiled Dancing Reminiscence With Patrick Swayze

7. A turning level for the actors got here in the course of the movie’s iconic raise scene within the lake, Swayze and Gray bonding over the tough expertise.

“It was horrifyingly, hypothermically chilly in that lake, and we filmed that scene again and again,” Swayze wrote in his autobiography. “And even though Jennifer was very gentle, if you’re lifting somebody in water, even the skinniest little woman can really feel like 500 kilos.”

8. However all their exhausting work proved to be price it, with Gray reflecting on lastly nailing the raise with Swayze in her 2022 memoir, Out of the Nook, that she held off doing the notorious transfer till they filmed the climactic last dance scene. 

“What you see between us in that scene was additionally actual,” she wrote. “Actual gratitude. Actual respect. Actual care. If that is not love, what’s?”

9. The scene wherein Child retains laughing as Johnny trails his fingers down her arm was unscripted as Gray actually was ticklish and Swayze’s annoyance was very actual. 

“We did not even keep in mind we had that footage as a result of we then shot it the place she did not snicker, and it was solely once we had been within the enhancing room that our dance editor discovered this,” Bergstein informed Cosmo. “Once we noticed it, we burst out laughing, and when Jennifer and Patrick noticed it for the primary time, they burst out laughing as a result of we might utterly forgotten that this had even occurred. We simply thought it was so humorous that we used it and cherished it.”