35 years after her role in
Dirty Dancing
, she reveals herself.
Jennifer Gray says in her memoir,
Out of the Corner
, out May 3, that she regrets having had her nose done after playing Baby, Patrick Swayze's dance partner.
At the time, the actress was 27 years old.
It was later, after a second rhinoplasty, when actor Michael Douglas did not recognize her during a preview, that the actress realized her mistake.
“It was the first time I went out in public.
And it became this thing, the idea of being completely invisible, overnight.
In the eyes of the world, I was no longer myself,” the sixty-year-old told
People magazine.
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Jennifer Grey précise que c'est sa mère Jo Wilder, également actrice, qui l'a encouragée à passer sous le bistouri : «J'étais tellement en colère contre ma mère pour m'avoir toujours dit que je devais refaire mon nez. Quand j'étais enfant, j'étais complètement anti-rhinoplastie. J'ai vraiment eu l'impression de capituler.»
She adds, however, that she understood her mother's motivations: “She loves me, she loved me, she always loved me, and she was pragmatic because she told me, 'You know what?
It's too hard to get you roles.
Make things easier.”
I did, and she was right.
It wasn't like she was telling me, "You're not pretty."
It was more like, “If you don't want to be an actress, ok.
But if you want to be…”
A common attitude when his parents (his father, Joel Grey, was also an actor) were building their careers: “I understand that they also did [surgery].
I know it was the 50s. I understand that we had to adapt.
You had to change your name, or do certain things, and that was considered normal."
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A cult role
Jennifer Gray saw her career launched thanks to
Dirty Dancing
, still today considered to have given her the role of her life.
Emile Ardolino's film, which earned $200 million at the box office, also earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
In video, Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray in full rehearsal
She is currently working on a sequel to the film, the essence of which she believes can speak to contemporary audiences
:
“Today people think their identity is limited, the world has told them so.
Dirty Dancing
was a fairy tale, a blockbuster movie, and a formula that used dance as a metaphor for the energy we possess, that allows us to step out of ourselves, and the thought systems that limit us. »
