Dirty Dancing: Sarah Jessica Parker could have played Baby!

The actress auditioned after playing a supporting role in Footloose.

Dirty Dancing will return at 9:25 p.m. on TMC, the channel programming a new special Patrick Swayze evening.

Released in 1987, this romantic comedy quickly became a cult classic and made stars of Jennifer Grey and the late Patrick Swayze, but did you know that the duo almost turned out very differently? In the documentary Once upon a time there was Patrick Swayzewe discover, among the many anecdotes about the life of the actor born in Texas, that he did not get along well with his partner. Indeed, if the interpreter of Johnny Castle took his role very seriously, the young woman acted as a dilettante, preferring to concentrate on her boyfriend, Matthew Broderick, who visited her on the set. A behavior that considerably annoyed the hero of Dirty Dancing. Perhaps he would have preferred to give the reply to Sarah Jessica Parker? Unknown at the time, the actress became the star of the series Sex and the City had in fact auditioned for the role, without success, a few years before… marrying Matthew Broderick! The actress was then 22 years old and she had already appeared in a few films such as Footloosein 1984, or School Girls (1985).

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