Dirty Dancing 2 Story Details Teased By Jennifer Grey

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Jennifer Grey has teased some plot details about the upcoming legacy sequel Dirty Dancing 2. The original Dirty Dancing, which was released in 1987, followed Grey's character Baby Houseman as she vacationed in the Catskills with her family in 1963. Over the course of the summer, she falls in love with the resort's dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) and he begins to teach her to dance, culminating in an epic lift move that captured the imagination of audiences for many years to follow. The film was a substantial hit, earning $214 million off a budget of $6 million and landing at #16 on the list of the highest-grossing domestic films of the year, beating out the James Bond film The Living Daylights.

The new film will be the first official sequel to Dirty Dancing, though the property has spawned a veritable franchise at this point between the 2004 prequel Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and the 2017 TV movie remake starring Abigail Breslin. The film was announced at CinemaCon earlier this year, along with confirmation that Grey would be returning as Baby Houseman. The most recent update came in May, revealing that Nine Perfect Strangers, 50/50, and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane director Jonathan Levine would be boarding the film, his first feature-length project since the Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron rom-com Long Shot in 2019.

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During an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Grey opened up about some aspects of what fans will be able to expect in the upcoming Dirty Dancing sequel. She said she has "no desire to remake the first one" and that this film will follow Baby's story "when it's 30 years later and it's the '90s." She is