Patrick Swayze’s spouse, Lisa Niemi, lately revealed that the late actor wouldn’t have chosen to take part within the upcoming Dirty Dancing sequel if he had been nonetheless alive.
Swayze starred because the beloved Johnny Citadel within the iconic flick, which was first launched in August of 1987. The late actor tragically passed in 2009, following a battle with pancreatic most cancers.
It was first introduced in 2020 that the movie can be getting a sequel, which is slated for launch in 2024. Through the 66-year-old’s dialog with Entertainment Tonight earlier this week, in mild of the upcoming 35th anniversary of Soiled Dancing, Niemi mentioned her husband would have opted out of the venture.
“He wouldn’t do it once more,” she informed ET’s Kevin Frazier. “[The way they] left it was completely good. There have been a number of iterations of a script for that film, however Patrick had a excessive commonplace and wasn’t gonna do it only for the cash.”
She went on to say, “Soiled Dancing was like lightning in a bottle. I do not assume you’ll be able to ever completely duplicate one thing.”
Despite the fact that Niemi feels that the upcoming movie might by no means dwell as much as her beloved husband’s unforgettable efficiency, she nonetheless has excessive hopes for the venture. “I believe you all the time have to begin contemporary, but when they’ll do it, I hope it is the best possible and it has its personal character, and persona, and supply of inspiration,” she mentioned.
Niemi additionally reminisced on the love her late husband obtained from followers after Dirty Dancing hit the large display screen, which has nonetheless continued within the years since his dying.
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“It is actually unbelievable,” she mentioned. “When Patrick was nonetheless alive, he would all the time say, ‘I am on my second era of followers’…He’d get approached by younger women who weren’t even born when the film got here out.”
For any artist, she mentioned, what extra might you ask for than “for his or her work to dwell on like that and make such an influence in such a optimistic means.”
In line with Variety, filmmakers on the Soiled Dancing sequel are in conversations with Swayze’s property to include his presence within the movie in a roundabout way. The late actor’s co-star, Jennifer Grey, will even reprise her position as Frances “Child” Houseman.
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