Jennifer Grey: Matthew Broderick didn’t believe I would get ‘Dirty Dancing’ role
nypost.com“Out of the Corner,” that her then-boyfriend said he didn’t think she would get the coveted part of Frances “Baby” Houseman on the night before her audition in 1986.“He said this odd thing, as if to reassure himself, like he wasn’t aware he was using his ‘out loud voice,'” Grey wrote, recalling him saying: “‘I don’t know what I’m worried about.
There’s no way you’re gonna get it. I’m sure they’re seeing everybody for this part.'”Grey also wrote that her “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” costar didn’t want to hang out with her at a nightclub the day before her audition.
But she explained that she begged and pleaded with him to come out with her to the club, which played ’50s and ’60s music, and he reluctantly agreed.
Broderick and Grey began a “clandestine set romance” and had a “secret rendezvous” in 1985 while they were shooting the John Hughes teen comedy in which they played warring siblings.“I was as surprised as anyone when our relationship morphed from on-screen sibling rivalry to off-screen illicit romance,” she wrote in her memoir, noting he was in a relationship with someone else at the time.Once “Ferris Bueller” wrapped filming, Grey noted that she wanted to end their secret romance.“I realized I was in love with Matthew and told him I couldn’t see him anymore,” she said.
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