Overview

• Marking the film’s 30th anniversary, John Leguizamo revisited the long-reported on-set tensions with Patrick Swayze from the 1995 production.
• Leguizamo says they were never in the same place at the time, so they resolved differences through exchanged letters handled by publicists.
• He called their on-screen wig-snatching fight his favorite scene to film, describing it as intense and fueled by real creative friction.
• Leguizamo attributes the conflict to his improvisational approach clashing with Swayze’s preference for sticking to scripted lines, with the director discouraging ad‑libbing.
• Both actors previously detailed a near-physical confrontation in their memoirs, and Swayze later died in 2009 at age 57 from pancreatic cancer.