John Leguizamo Says It Was 'Difficult Working with' Patrick Swayze on 1995's “To Wong Foo”: 'He Couldn't Keep Up'

"Rest in peace, I love him. He was just neurotic," Leguizamo said of Swayze, who died in 2009

John Leguizamo and the late Patrick Swayze didn't always see eye to eye while filming the 1995 movie To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.

In an interview with Andy Cohen for SiriusXM's Radio Andy, the 63-year-old actor and comedian said he found it "difficult" to work with Swayze when they made the comedy, which also starred Wesley Snipes, nearly 30 years ago.

"Rest in peace, I love him. He was just neurotic and I'm not ... you know, I'm neurotic too but, I don't know. He was just ... it was difficult working with him," said Leguizamo of Swayze. "Just neurotic, I think maybe a tiny bit insecure."

He went on, "And then Wesley and I, we vibed because, you know, we're people of color and we got each other. And I'm also an improviser, and [Patrick] didn't like that."

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According to Leguizamo, Swayze "couldn't keep up with" his ad-libbing moments, "and it would make him mad and upset sometimes."

"He'd be like, 'Are you gonna say a line like that?' I'd go, 'You know me. I'm gonna do me. I'm gonna just keep making up lines,' " the actor recalled to Cohen, 55. "He goes, 'Well, can you just say the line the way it is?' I go, 'I can't. And the director [Beeban Kidron] didn't want me to."

In Too Wong Foo, Swayze, Leguizamo and Snipes play three drag queens who road trip across the country to participate in a beauty pageant, only to break down in the middle of nowhere. While the trip feel less than welcome at first, they soon teach inhabitants of Snydersville about the true meaning of beauty, love, strength and acceptance.

The movie also stars Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner, Chris Penn, Melinda Dillon, Beth Grant and Michael Vartan, with cameos from Robin Williams, RuPaul — and, of course, Julie Newmar herself.

Leguizamo, who played "drag princess" Chi-Chi Rodriguez in To Wong Foo, has numerous memorable lines in the movie, and is a foil to Swayze's more serious and leadership-focused Vida Boheme.

"I rewrote that role. I expanded that role, 'cause that role was nothing," Leguizamo said of his character. "Douglas Carter Beane may disagree because he wrote the script, but he knows what I brought to it. He knows. ... He's incredible."

The actor also previously recalled his tense moments with Swayze on the To Wong Foo set in his 2007 memoir Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life — including how the two almost got into a physical altercation. (Swayze, who died in 2009 at age 57, tells his side of the story in his posthumous memoir The Time of My Life).

Speaking about the incident to Yahoo! Entertainment in 2020, Leguizamo said he and Swayze came to their senses before fists actually started swinging, in large part due to their costumes.

"We were about to fight but were like, ‘Take a look at ourselves — we’re in hot pants and f--- me pumps.’ It was ridiculous!" Leguizamo said. "So we stopped and we hugged.”

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