Even Demi Moore was a little crazy for Patrick Swayze. On Tuesday’s (Feb. 6) episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Moore recalled starring alongside the late actor in their beloved 1990 romance Ghost.
According to the star, she had only met Swayze — who died in 2009 — moments before they filmed the iconic love scene in which their characters sculpt midnight pottery to The Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody.”
“The first thing that just popped into my head was meeting Patrick Swayze for the first time, going, ‘Oh, you know, trying to figure out his thing,’” she recalled to host Drew Barrymore, per Entertainment Weekly. “And then he took his shirt off, and I was like, ‘Oh, got it. Get on behind me.’”
Moore added that she even got to take home some of the pottery she made with the hunky actor.
“I still have my little pots that I made, which are pitiful,” she revealed. “They’re the saddest looking things.”
In the movie, the two star as lovers who move in together shortly before Swayze’s character Sam Wheat is shot and killed. With Sam stuck in purgatory, he enlists the help of psychic medium Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) to warn the love of his life of impending danger.
Ghost went on to become the highest-grossing film of 1990, with Moore gaining international stardom and Goldberg winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Just two short years later, Moore was cast alongside Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in the 1992 legal drama A Few Good Men. While reminiscing about her time filming the Rob Reiner-directed flick on The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress said Cruise was “mortified” when she auditioned toward the tail end of her pregnancy.
“One: I had to audition for A Few Good Men,” she said. “The only thing is I was about seven-and-a-half months pregnant. So I had to go waddling in. Tom Cruise was mortified.”
Aside from her audition, Moore — who had given birth by the time they started filming — also remembered what she learned from Nicholson.
“In the big courtroom scenes when Jack Nicholson is up on the stand, they were shooting the other direction all day,” she said. “And here I’m watching this iconic actor — this actor that I’ve grown up with, that I have such respect for — do off-camera at full steam all day long.”
She added, “It was something that just moved me and really stayed with me on the importance of how we show up for each other.”
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