Off The Screen Magazine November 2012

It’s a beautiful love story,” she says. “I think that’s bringing everyone here. It’s the music, absolutely, but it’s the love between two completely different characters, being Johnny and Baby. Johnny is from the streets, he’s rough around the edges.

He doesn’t show emotion whereas Baby is completely the opposite. She wears her heart on her sleeve, and they come together and they form such a beautiful relationship and they help each other bring out what they need to change in their lives, and support and they encourage each other to grow. So people are coming for that, the love. Dirty Dancing is about real people. It’s not dramatic, it’s real emotions that real people feel and the end scene, where Johnny leaves, it always gets to me, not only as Baby, I can relate to her, but we’ve all felt pain in our life when someone we love has left and that physical pain, you can relate to her, you can feel what she’s feeling, so there’s all these issues that you see that are completely real.

Bryony was a fan of the film as child. I asked her what impact it had on her.

“It came out 25 years ago,” she begins. “I was born in 86, so I was 1 when the film came out, but I remember watching it. I remember the pink, you can’t miss, and the Dirty Dancing logo, and I remember this girl, how she couldn’t dance and this really sexy guy taught her how to dance, and I loved the story. I loved the concept of it and the lift at the end.”

The film played an important part in her preparation for this iconic role.

“While I’ve been growing up,” she said. “I haven’t watched it that much,