In an interview with People about her memoi r Out Of The Corner, Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey said that she has regrets about the tension in her relationship with her late costar Patrick Swayze. Grey and Swayze played love interests in the classic film that centers around Frances Baby Houseman Grey and dance instructor Johnny Castle Swayze. Baby is reluctantly spending the summer in the Catskills with her parents before she enlists in the Peace Corps. Her attitude begins to change when she meets the resort's dance teacher Johnny, who insists she become his dance partner. Eventually, they fall in love but their story is not without its challenges. Baby's father tries to forbid them from seeing each other, but his attitude makes Baby that much more focused on helping Johnny make a statement at the last big dance event of the summer. Thank goodness for that because it gives us an iconic quote and a lift that's earned a place in pop culture history. Grey said that the tension we feel on the screen between Johnny and Baby is actual tension between her and Swayze, writing that the pair weren't a natural match. How did such strain grow on the set of a romantic dance film?
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With both news of a Dirty Dancing sequel beginning production nearly four decades after its release, and in the dawn of a post-Roe v. Wade era, star Jennifer Grey sat down to discuss the film's frightening relevance to today's world. In her interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actress who played the film's starry-eyed good girl, Frances Baby Houseman, touched on the impact of the film's message, the many social justice elements woven into the storyline, and how, at the time, the cast never could have imagined those horrific scenarios could one day become a reality again. For those who haven't had the life-changing pleasure of watching and re-watching Grey's Baby and Patrick Swayze 's Johnny Castle falling in love despite all odds, the movie takes place at a resort in the Catskills in the early '60s. Baby is the daughter of a first-rate doctor and is set to join the Peace Corps at summer's end, while Johnny is a second-class dance instructor, both desired and lauded by the wealthy resort attendees while simultaneously considered beneath them. When Baby discovers Johnny's world, one she's forbidden to associate with, she finds herself in the middle of a heavy situation. Johnny's dance partner, Penny Cynthia Rhodes, is in dire need of an abortion — illegal at the time — that she can't afford, and Baby is confronted with a decision.
In a new interview in promotion of her recently released memoir Out of the Corner, Jennifer Grey recalls how former Dirty Dancing co-star Patrick Swayze made amends with her prior to shooting. The year-old actor—who also recently revealed details about the upcoming Dirty Dancing sequel —specifically mentioned her relationship with Patrick on the set of Red Dawn, the action film they both starred in Ghost would have been a disaster if Patrick Swayze hadn't made this huge decision. As a result of his behavior, Jennifer was at first opposed to starring opposite Patrick in Dirty Dancing. Things changed after their first screen test together, though, when he pulled me down the hall and said to me, 'I love you, I love you and I'm so sorry.