Jennifer Grey reveals why she turned down the Dirty Dancing remake

'I was asked to do something on that show and I was flattered because I always want to be asked because it's nice to want to be included'

She already had the time of her life - how exactly do you get that a second time around?

That's the exact logic behind Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey's decision to turn down appearing in ABC's made-for-TV remake of the 1987 classic. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Grey revealed she had been offered a role but had decided against making an appearance.

"I was asked to do something on that show and I was flattered because I always want to be asked because it's nice to want to be included. But for me, it would be sacrosanct for me to do it because it didn't feel appropriate to me," she revealed. "It feels like if you're going to do your own thing, do your own thing. I wouldn't say [what role was offered] but I will tell you, it wasn't Baby!"

ABC's Dirty Dancing remake stars Abigail Breslin in the role of Baby alongside newcomer Colt Prattes as Johnny Castle (originally played by Patrick Swayze); Debra Messing, Nicole Scherzinger, and Sarah Hyland also star.

"I am always interested in any iteration of something where they feel there's more to be gotten and I would love to see what it is that they come up with," Grey said of the remake. "Tommy Kail [who directed Hamilton] directed it and I'm obsessed with Hamilton, so that's thrilling to me. I think they've got wonderful actors in it. I'm going to be watching it and I'm excited. My only advice is to own it for yourself because we all just do our interpretation and I'm only flattered and excited for people who are excited enough to put their stamp on it and see what they make of it and how they make it their own."

"He smelled really good, his skin was really nice," Grey recalled of her time working with co-star Swayze. "He was really strong and he was very protective and his heart was very much in it. It was our second movie we'd done together within a short time — we did Red Dawn first and then Dirty Dancing. He was a great dancer and he was fearless. His fearlessness with my fearfulness — like his lack of Jewishness and my super Jewishness — together was like a marriage where you have two opposites. He'd do anything and I'd be scared to do anything."

Grey currently stars in Amazon Studios' Red Oaks, opposite Craig Roberts and Richard Kind, which sets its coming-of-age story during the 1980s; a decade one critic was seen to describe as "sucky".

"The '80s were great," Grey reflected. "When they were talking about it being sucky, they clearly weren't having the same '80s I was having; I was having the time of my life!" she said with a knowing nod to one of Dirty Dancing's best-known songs. "I was big in the '80s, so that was good! I thought the '80s was a very exciting time.

"At the time, it felt like it was a loss of innocence but looking back now, it just looks like preschool compared to where we are now in terms of innocence. I think it was a really exciting time. The fashion was terrible, the hair was terrible, but the music was great."