Jennifer Grey recalls smoking a lot of weed before her sex scene with a drunk Patrick Swayze in Red Dawn

Jennifer Grey is reflecting on how a sex scene with Patrick Swayze in their 1984 film “Red Dawn” was derailed.According to the actress, 64, Swayze was drunk, and she was “smoking a lot of weed” at the time they filmed the scene that ultimately got cut.“We were in this, you know, sleeping bag, and he was nervous or whatever, and he came into the sleeping bag drunk,” Grey, said on the Friday episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast.Grey, Swayze, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen and C.Thomas Howell play teenagers who head to the mountains to launch a counter-attack against a Russian-led invasion in their Colorado town in the action film.“As an actor, you’re looking at all your stuff in the script, and you’re like, okay.

I’m running.I’m shooting.

I’m running.I’m throwing hand grenades.

I’m killing myself with a hand grenade.But this is the only acting scene I get to do where I’m not doing action,” she said of the sex scene.

Grey added it was “one of the more tender scenes which was, I thought, part of the reason I wanted to do the job.”But Swayze — who died in 2009 from pancreatic cancer at 57 — “didn’t know his lines.”“And then it got cut,” she continued.“And they said, ‘We’ll come back and reshoot it.’ But, of course, they didn’t.” She also shared that her co-stars would “put firecrackers in my door … to prank me.”“I was smoking a lot of weed in those days, too,” Grey revealed.

“And so, I was super paranoid, and I was scared.I didn’t sleep the whole night.

So when I went in to shoot my big love scene, my big … romantic scene with him, I was so angry because I was, you know, all self-righteous.”The “DWTS” alum elaborated further on their scene.“Keep in mind, I’m super young actor,” Grey said, “really taking everything seriously, and maybe a little annoying… because I wanna do good.” Grey previously told the story of how, before she and ...