Jake Gyllenhaal on how he ‘honoured’ late Patrick Swayze in Road House remake
In the Prime Video remake of the 1989 original, US actor Gyllenhaal takes the lead playing former UFC fighter Elwood Dalton.
Jake Gyllenhaal has said he had tattoos created for his character in “honour” of the late Patrick Swayze when creating a remake of his action thriller Road House.
Dirty Dancing star Swayze played James Dalton, a New York City bouncer hired to protect a bar in Jasper, Missouri, in the original 1989 film.
In the Prime Video remake by director Doug Liman, US actor Gyllenhaal takes the lead playing former UFC fighter Elwood Dalton, who takes a job as a bouncer at a roadside bar in the Florida Keys.
The pair worked together in the 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko, in which Gyllenhaal stars as a sleepwalking teenager and Swayze plays a motivational speaker.
