![]() ![]() What additions did you look forward to incorporating? Glamour: This version is about an hour longer than the original film. We really had permission to take the ball and run with it. Glamour: Did you have to get permission from the original writers to make that decision? It was more about, How did that summer change them permanently in terms of their direction in life? I don’t think it’s going to particularly shock audiences, but I hope it’s satisfying to just answer that question and to see that this first love-for her-was sort of awkward and geeky, that it led her somewhere in her life. It was less about what happened between them because it was never really that we were going to throw them together as husband and wife. It’s a very dramatic experience, and so, for me, it was interesting to see, Where did their lives land them later. It’s not usually the love that you sustain for the rest of your life, and there’s something very immature about it. So I’ve always been interested in first loves because it’s really a bittersweet thing. In fact, the very first job I got in Hollywood was to write a screenplay called First Love. JS: You never forget your first love, and I’m very interested in first loves. Glamour: What do you hope the audience takes away from that moment? Do you hope they're shocked? So the framing device sort of served both of those ideas. One is that people have such nostalgia for this movie, and one question was always, "I wonder what happened to Johnny and Baby?" So we felt for fun, if we’re going to redo it, why not answer that question? The other thought was that by putting a frame around it, where she’s actually going to see the Broadway musical of her life-and Dirty Dancing was turned into a Broadway musical-that it actually gave permission for the musical numbers. There were two considerations that led to that. ![]()
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