Courage
When Jerry Orbach (an accomplish actor and Broadway star), AKA Dr. Jake Houseman, passed away in 2004, Patrick Swayze had a few words to say. “Jerry Orbach has been one of the most successful actors who ever lived to make that transition from musical theatre into real, organic, break-your-heart kinds of reality in his work as a film actor, but transition back and forth seamlessly… it was a very interesting time for me, when I was shooting Dirty Dancing, I think probably the eyes I trusted if I was real, and it worked, and I had nailed it, [were] Jerry Orbach’s eyes. I would go over to him and under my breath ‘What did you think?’ and he goes ‘No, go there further, I think there’s more you can get.’ He would say little things like ‘courage’, and it gives me goosebumps to say that. I really, really respected that man. I watched his career from the time I was little. I think it was a great loss when he passed.”
Courage
