Patrick Swayze's brutal Road House fight scenes were ALL real
Daily MailPatrick Swayze's brutal Road House fight scenes were all real, with the star even cracking his co-star's eye socket during one scrap - a candid new interview has revealed. Patrick Swayze's brutal Road House fight scenes were all real, with the star even cracking his co-star's eye socket during one scrap - a candid new interview has revealed Swayze, who died aged 57 in 2009 following a battle with pancreatic cancer, starred as bouncer James Dalton in the iconic 1989 film Road House has since been remade into a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor 'That log I broke across his ribs was not in the script, it was ad-libbed. His co-star Marshall Teague, 70, who played henchman Jimmy Reno, revealed he had 'busted' Swayze's rib after the actor had encouraged him to attack him violently so as to not 'cheat' audiences during the film's finale fight scene - filmed over five nights Patrick Swayze fans have vowed to boycott the Road House remake after the 1989 movie was rebooted with Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead role Marshall reveals the-then 36-year-old actor, who he nicknamed Buddy, was intent on showing audiences and studios that he was both a 'lover and fighter' on set in 1988. It emerged Wednesday that the new Road House will not get a theatrical release, but will instead receive a streaming-only rollout on Amazon Prime March 21 'We always ended every call "I love you brother"'.