It's nearly impossible to imagine "Ghost" without its super sexy scene of Sam and Molly at the pottery wheel while The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" plays from a jukebox. But this scene wasn't in the original script at all. As Rubin first wrote it, Molly was a sculptor, which Zucker felt didn't work because "it felt harsh, taking a hammer and chisel and banging on something," as he told Forbes in 2020. Zucker continued on to describe how one day, while doing post-production on the second "Naked Gun" movie, he was sitting next to a sound engineer, who was reading a pottery magazine. As Zucker flipped through the images of beautiful pots and pieces, he got a vision of a pottery wheel and people making things with their hands. Rubin agreed to make Molly a potter instead and wrote the scene into the film.
While Demi Moore took pottery classes to prepare for the role, the pot she threw on camera collapsed, which wasn't in the script. In fact, Swayze had decided to "throw a curve ball" and make the pot fall, which made it into the final cut of the film. The rest, as they say, is history as this scene has become one of the most well-known, beloved and parodied film scenes of all time. In fact, the chemistry was so hot that Zucker decided to cut an actual sex scene out of the film. Who needs sex when you have clay?
