Patrick Swayze’s brutal Road House fight scenes were ALL real with actor even cracking his co-star’s eye socket during filming… after Jake Gyllenhaal remake was panned

Patrick Swayze’s brutal Road House fight scenes were all real, with the star even cracking his co-star’s eye socket during one scrap – a candid new interview has revealed.

Swayze, who died aged 57 in 2009 following a battle with pancreatic cancer, starred as bouncer James Dalton in the iconic 1989 film – which has since been remade into a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor.

His co-star Marshall Teague, 70, who played henchman Jimmy Reno, revealed he had ‘busted’ Swayze’s rib after the actor had encouraged him to attack him violently so as to not ‘cheat’ audiences during the film’s finale fight scene – filmed over five nights.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Navy veteran Teague confessed that he chastised Swayze at first for his lackluster fight skills, which fired up the lead star for the pair to ‘beat the hell’ out of each other.

He said: ‘If you watch the film, we’re not pulling the punches. He kicked me in the eye and cracked one of my eye sockets with that spinning kick. So I busted his ribs.

‘That log I broke across his ribs was not in the script, it was ad-libbed. I picked it up off the beach and hit him and he really did grimace and collapse.

‘Patrick looked at me, kind of catching his breath. and said “we’re even”. And I said, “we’re even, let’s go”.

‘It was great. It didn’t make me mad. I thought it was a great lick, if we would’ve been in the ring, I congratulated him for a hell of a kick.’

Marshall, who has martial arts and military combat training experience, added: ‘The first scene he was supposed to kick me right in the front. So he started to kick me and I looked down and I brushed it off, and went, “okay. Is that it? Is that what you are going to do all night long?”

‘He rolled back and kicked me again, which backed me up a step or two. I brushed it off again and I said, “if that’s the best kick you’ve got, this is going to be one lousy ass fight.”

‘He just said: “Roll the camera”. And then he kicked me so hard I flew back about 10 feet and scooted my butt on the ground like a rock skipping over water.

‘And I looked at him and I went, “now that’s a kick.”

‘He came over and helped me up and pulled me to close to his face and said: “you like this s***, don’t you?” And I said, “no, sir. I love this s***.”‘

Marshall reveals the-then 36-year-old actor, who he nicknamed Buddy, was intent on showing audiences and studios that he was both a ‘lover and fighter’ on set in 1988. 

He said: ‘Buddy then told me: “What do you say we don’t cheat the audience for the first time?’ We got to leave faces alone to finish the movie, but let’s bring it full on.”

‘I grinned, “You came to the right place brother.’ From that moment on he was full tilt.”

Cameras caught Patrick grin at times during the screen fight even after winding his pal ‘with a flying knee kick catching me right in the chest.’ Patrick’s injuries meant his limp after the combat was ‘real.’

The action segment, which lasted around five minutes on screen, was shot over five nights in grueling six hour stints.

Teague said: ‘When we first got into it, every crew member and even producer Joel Silver jumped on top us and pulled us apart, “come on guys, don’t kill each other. We’re trying to make a movie here.”

‘Our arms, chest, sides, legs and backs were black with bruises. We hit one another so hard we’d bruise so badly all over. They packed he and I in ice.’

Teague feels the new Road House, which will be released on Prime on March 21, will have a different energy to the original.

Gyllenhaal stars as Elwood Dalton, seemingly related to Swayze’s character James Dalton.

This new Dalton is a ripped former UFC fighter who becomes a ‘cooler’ (bouncer) for a dingy bar in the Florida Keys.

Daniela Melchior (in the Kelly Lynch role) Billy Magnussen (in Ben Gazzara’s place) and Jessica Williams star alongside real-life UFC fighter Conor McGregor.

The action-packed trailer failed to win over any fans of the original who questioned why anyone would bother with a remake. 

The new Road House will not receive a theatrical release, but will be available for streaming via Amazon Prime on March 21.

Director Doug Liman recently announced that he is protesting the film’s SXSW premiere in response to Amazon’s decision to skip a theatrical release for the movie, which he says was made for theaters.

Fans shared on X: ‘They remade Roadhouse?? Will I watch it? Probably But Swayze aka Dalton will always be the OG in my book’; ‘The proper/only/Swayze version of Road House is on 5Star tonight at 9pm.’; 

‘A Road House remake? There’s only one Dalton, Go F yourself Hollywood!’; ‘I would have some VERY negative things to say about this Road House remake, but Patrick Swayze gave me some good life advice: Be Nice’;

‘Whose idea was it to remake Roadhouse and when will they be fired?! ‘; ‘Hollywood didn’t learn from the Point Break remake? Who decided to remake Roadhouse? This is an abomination. Hands off Patrick Swayze movies….’;

 Teague said of the remake: ‘With that adrenaline pumping we continued all night long to where we were mentally and physically exhausted… that would never happen today in the new Road House. 

‘First of all I don’t know if the actors could do it. And that’s not saying anything against the actors. Jake is a tough son of a buck and Conor is a hell of a fighter, but they would not be allowed to hurt fight like we did.’

‘I understand some fans didn’t like it too much, because Road House is hard to redo. But it is a reimagining not remake, and that will go better. Fans are fans and some will always feel loyal and not want it, but I am excited.’

He added: ‘The 80s were one thing, but since the 2000s it has been about the bodies.

‘Jake is an amazing shape, with I reckon about four percent body fat. And Jake is a brilliant actor, who likes going into the dark stuff. We saw that in the boxing movie Southpaw,

‘Conor looks ripped in the trailer and is a wonderful athlete. I cannot speak of his acting, but he is around people that are good actors. I am sure he’ll be marvelous.

‘People ask if I am in it, but they forget Jimmy got his throat ripped out!’

Marshall and his wife Lindy regularly visited Swayze and wife Lisa Niemi and shared regular calls for twenty years until his tragic passing.

He said: ‘Patrick and I stayed in touch. He’d be working in India, but call me at 3am in the morning. My wife Lindy would say ‘it’s Patrick’ and I get up and it’d be ‘what’s going on brother?’ And for two hours we’d talk about everything you can imagine. It never mattered what time it was we always made time for each other.

‘We always ended every call “I love you brother”‘.

Teague revealed he has kept the last text message that Patrick sent him, days before his passing.

He said: ‘I transfer it to every phone. I got his message two weeks before he died after I told him I was there if he needed anything. He told me: “Partner those words mean a lot to me. Understand I am going to beat this sucker. I love you. Buddy.”’

‘That is the last thing I heard from him. When I heard he died it stopped the world cold. He was a love of a man. Just talking about him pops pictures of us in my head.’

The original Road House bowed in 1989 to a disappointing response but has since acquired a devoted cult following.

Patrick’s co-stars included Sam Elliott as James Dalton’s mentor and Drugstore Cowboy actress Kelly Lynch as his love interest.

Acclaimed Broadway actor Ben Gazzara featured as Brad Wesley, the nefarious businessman who becomes the villain of the picture.

The soundtrack included original songs by Patrick, among classic recordings like the Doors’ Roadhouse Blues and Fats Domino’s Blue Monday.

Marshall can be seen in the upcoming biopic Reagan and comedy Delivery Fee.