Jennifer Grey: Patrick Swayze cried saying sorry to me on ‘Dirty Dancing’ set

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The View” earlier this week to discuss her memoir, “Out of the Corner,” and her tense experiences working with “The Outsiders” actor, who died in 2009 at the age of 57.“Patrick was playing pranks on me and everybody,” Grey said. “It was just, like, macho, and I just couldn’t take it.

I was just like, ‘Please, this guy, that’s enough with him.'”The “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” actress then detailed how she was hesitant to sign on for “Dirty Dancing” with Swayze.However, she agreed to do a screen test with him and during their chemistry read, he brought her close and apologized for his actions.“He pulled me down the hall and said to me, ‘I love you, I love you, and I’m so sorry.

And I know you don’t want me to do the movie,'” she explained.Grey went on, “And he got the tears in his eyes. And I got the tears in my eyes — not for the same reason.

I was like, ‘Oh, this guy’s working me.’ And he goes, ‘We could kill it — we could kill it if we did this.'”“We go in there and he takes me in his arms and I was like, ‘Oh, boy.