15 Things You Probably Didn"t Know About "Dirty Dancing"

If you can believe it, it’s almost been 30 years since the widely popular film Dirty Dancing first entered our lives. That’s right, 30 years have passed since Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey danced their way into our hearts and made all of us want to take up professional dancing. What? Just me? REGARDLESS, we all know that the film is among the most culturally recognized of it’s genre, but how much do you know about what went on BEHIND the scenes? Get ready, here are 15 things you most likely didn’t know about Dirty Dancing. 

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1. Patrick Swayze had to convince Jennifer Grey to be in it.

Apparently Jennifer Grey wasn’t too fond of working with Swayze after they co-starred in Red Dawn together. 

2. The most iconic scene was an accident.

Remember that magical scene where Baby and Johnny crawl towards each other on the floor? As it turns out, the actors didn’t even know they were being filmed. They were fooling around before the scene, but the director liked it so much it was put in the movie. 

3. The entire movie wasn’t filmed in Virginia.

While most of it was filmed in Virginia, the famous lake scene was filmed in North Carolina during the autumn. The actors were so cold that their lips were actually blue!

4. Jennifer Grey landed the part in just five minutes.

Being 27 years of age when the film was being made, Grey was ten years older than her character. The filmmakers gave her just five minutes to prove to them that she could play a teenager.