

And, by a fluke, they stumbled on my audition tape and said, ‘That guy was really good.’” "And I kept harassing my agent, who would never return my phone calls, and I managed to get an audition. "At that time, she was much more successful than me and was doing all these big movies, and she kept saying, ‘They haven’t cast that part! You should bug your agents!’ Read more: Pretty Woman: The cute story of how Julia Roberts convinced Richard Gere to take the role “My wife was the production designer on that movie. “I fought my way into an audition on Ghost,” Goldwyn told The AV Club.

However, it was his wife who helped land him one of his most famous roles.

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Read more: Vintage footage of Patrick Swayze 'dirty dancing' with his wife Lisa Niemi is sensational “Jerry wanted to see him on film, so went out and saw the movie Roadhouse, and we walked out of that movie and Jerry said to me, ‘Over my dead body,’” said Rubin. On the Ghost DVD, screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin revealed how Zucker was against casting Patrick as Sam. It's hard to imagine anyone else play Sam in Ghost, but he was most definitely not the first choice. Wonder how Patrick Swayze was able to secure the role of a lifetime in Ghost? Take a behind-the-scenes look at this clip from the bonus content, available for the first time on DIGITAL HD July 7!Posted by Ghost on Tuesday, June 30, 2015
