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Jennifer Grey Recalls 'Smoking a Lot of Weed' Before Sex Scene with a Drunk Patrick Swayze in “Red Dawn”

The scene — which never made it into the film — was part of the reason Grey took the role in the 1984 action film

Cara Lynn Shultz
Fri, December 20, 2024 at 1:50 PM EST
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Jennifer Grey looked back on how a sex scene with Patrick Swayze — that was ultimately cut from 1984’s Red Dawn — was derailed by him being drunk, and her "smoking a lot of weed" at the time.

“We were in this, you know, sleeping bag, and he was nervous or whatever, and he came into the sleeping bag drunk,” Grey, 64, told host Scott Feinberg on the Dec. 20 episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast.

In the action film, Grey, Swayze, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell and others, play teenagers that retreat to the mountains as they launch a counter-attack against a Russian-led invasion in their Colorado town.

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