The Secrets Behind Patrick Swayze’s Most Memorable Roles

The title stuck, but the sweet story of three drag performers who find themselves in a small Nebraska town where some minds don’t want to be open is still fascinating and absolutely relevant.

“From the first time I heard about [the movie]I knew I wanted to be in it,” wrote Swayze, who played the matriarchal Vida Boheme. The time of my life. “It would be an amazing challenge to transform myself into a convincing woman, and playing a man in drag would really stretch me.”

He explained Lawyer that he directed his own life, “grew up in poor Texas, mother was a choreographer and trying to find out who I was. I just took that life and changed it to a boy who had had female tendencies all his life and discovered who he was. It’s very easy for me to identify with Vida.”

He wrote in his book that he imitated Vida Lauren BacallDemi Moore, Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’sand his choreographer mother, Patsy Swayze.

Plus, hanging out with real drag queens “was incredibly appealing,” Swayze wrote. “Not only did they have an amazing sense of humor, but they also had amazing courage. It takes cojones to be who you are, especially when it’s so different from what society tells you to be.”

Meanwhile, he sat in the makeup chair every morning at 4 a.m. and had to shave five times a day to get rid of the stubble. Between Swayze and John Leguizamo on the set. Swayze wrote of losing it because of the comedian’s penchant for improvisation: “Finally, I got really sick of it, I snapped, ‘Oh, God! Could you just shut the f— up up for once?”

“Patrick is rocking. And I rock. We are both at Frederick Hollywood,” Leguizamo wrote in Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas and all my other Hollywood friends. “I’m in hot pants. He’s screwed… They break up before we start pulling each other’s hair and gouging each other’s eyes out.”