

After watching the initial cut of the movie, some of the producers had little faith in it, according to Bergstein. They said, 'Too bad, we should have thought of that sooner,' and so we didn't do it."ġ3. Everything just crumbles, nothing will make any sense. "I said, 'Hey, I would love to, but I can't because if I take it out everything will fall apart.' There's no story without that. "I always had known this would happen one day," the writer explained. In order to secure a corporate sponsorship, producers asked Bergstein to take Penny's abortion out of the script, which she refused to do. Schumacher, but she backed out when she learned the character was revealed to be the resort's thief.ġ2. Ruth Westheimer was initially set to play Mrs. The film's assistant choreographer Miranda Garrison then took over the role of Vivian.ġ1. Bishop had initially been cast as Vivian Pressman, the resort guest interested in Johnny. Baby's mother was originally played by Lynne Lipton, but she was replaced by Kelly Bishop after Lipton became ill during the first week of shooting.

We just thought it was so funny that we used it and loved it."ġ0. "When we saw it, we burst out laughing, and when Jennifer and Patrick saw it for the first time, they burst out laughing because we'd completely forgotten that this had even happened. "We didn't even remember we had that footage because we then shot it where she didn't laugh, and it was only when we were in the editing room that our dance editor found this," Bergstein told Cosmo. The scene in which Baby keeps laughing as Johnny trails his fingers down her arm was unscripted as Grey really was ticklish and Swayze's annoyance was very real. "What you see between us in that scene was also real," she wrote. But all their hard work proved to be worth it, with Grey reflecting on finally nailing the lift with Swayze in her 2022 memoir, Out of the Corner, that she held off doing the infamous move until they filmed the climactic final dance scene. "And despite the fact that Jennifer was very light, when you're lifting someone in water, even the skinniest little girl can feel like 500 pounds."Ĩ. "It was horrifyingly, hypothermically cold in that lake, and we filmed that scene over and over," Swayze wrote in his autobiography. A turning point for the actors came during the film's iconic lift scene in the lake, Swayze and Grey bonding over the difficult experience. There was something there between the two of them that was unexplainable. "Sometimes, it was conflict sometimes it was love.

"Both of them brought so much every day," Ortega told People in 2017. Choreographer Kenny Ortega used their real-life dynamic to fuel Johnny and Baby's chemistry on-screen. "Other times, she slipped into silly moods, forcing us to do scenes over and over again when she'd start laughing."Ħ. "She seemed particularly emotional, sometimes bursting into tears if someone criticized her," Swayze wrote in his 2009 autobiography, The Time of My Life. But there was initially tension between the two leads, who often clashed over their different approaches to acting. He'd do anything and I'd be scared to do anything."ĥ. "His fearlessness with my fearfulness-like his lack of Jewishness and my super Jewishness-together was like a marriage where you have two opposites. Swayze was "a great dancer and he was fearless," Grey told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. Non-dancer Grey admitted she was terrified to partner with Swayze, despite already having worked with him in Red Dawn.
