“At the end when we say we’ll always be together, we still are. We’re all still friends,” the actress, who played Frenchy in the film, said.

*Grease *star Didi Conn recalls the cast ‘being horny’ during ‘crazy’ production of throwback musical

"At the end when we say we'll always be together, we still are. We're all still friends," the actress, who played Frenchy in the film, said.

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Didi Conn in 'Grease' (1978). Credit:

- Didi Conn is looking back on her time starring in the 1978 musical *Grease*.

- The cast's committed approach to staying in character "gave us the license to be these crazy high school kids and having fun and being horny or whatever," Conn said.

- "Honestly, at the end, when we say we'll always be together, we still are. We're all still friends," she said.

Uh oh, those summer nights!

Many words have been used to describe the 1978 throwback musical *Grease*: "cool," "campy," "fun," "frivolous." Star Didi Conn has humbly submitted another adjective for consideration: "horny."

Speaking about the film with PEOPLE for an article published Wednesday, Conn, now 74, praised her costars for so thoroughly committing themselves to their characters that while on set,

"Nobody called me Didi. I was Frenchy... There was [Stockard Channing], but that was Rizzo," she said.

As a result, "Our relationship to each other began to form and it was great... and it gave us the license to be these crazy high school kids and having fun and being horny or whatever. We just had a wonderful time."

The cast of 'Grease' as the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds.

You heard it here first: A bunch of twenty- and thirtysomethings playing high school students were horny.

Conn explained just how and why the cast pledged allegiance to their roles in the musical adapted from the 1971 stage production of the same name this way: We did something that for me was unique at the time and now I try to do this on other sets... What happened was most of us were a tad older than the teenagers we were playing. And so, we did a very interesting thing: As soon as we got our makeup on, our hair, whatever, we became the characters we were playing."

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Conn played the loyal and guileless Frency Facciano in the film, alongside her girl gang of Pink Ladies — Channing's Betty Rizzo, Dinah Manoff's Marty Maraschino, Jamie Donnelly's Jan, and new recruit Olivia Newton-John's Sandy Olsson.

Echoing the words of the film's beloved last musical number, "We Go Together," Conn noted, "Honestly, at the end when we say we'll always be together, we still are. We're all still friends."

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Conn's hint that there was more to the cast's chemistry than what was captured on camera was backed up in 2018, when Barry Pearl, who played the T-Bird Doody, told the *Mirror* that his fellow castmates "used to joke" about Jeff Conaway's adult compulsions "all the time." Why? Because the actor who played greaser Kenickie's "trailer at lunchtime was really rocking. He made out like a bandit."

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