Stallone at 80 Reflects on 'Rocky' 50 Years Later: 'I Am a Lucky Dog'
Stallone says Rocky’s outsider spirit still resonates as his memoir Steps arrives and a film about his life nears theaters.
- On Monday, actor Sylvester Stallone discussed his memoir 'The Steps' at New York's 92nd Street Y, marking 50 years since his breakout film 'Rocky' premiered.
- Stallone described his memoir as an excavation of buried trauma, spending 50 years concealing the insecurity and adversity that drove his career as an 'ambivalent roller coaster ride.'
- Stallone, who turned 80 in July, no longer claims to be an underdog, reflecting, "If everything was really nice, maybe I wouldn't be here."
- Director Peter Farrelly's semi-authorized film 'I Play Rocky,' starring Anthony Ippolito, arrives in theaters within two months, a project Stallone called "surreal."
- Stallone remains active in the industry, currently starring in the Paramount series 'Tulsa King' while maintaining an intense routine, studying dialogue until it is "like breathing.
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Stallone at 80 reflects on ‘Rocky’ 50 years later: ‘I am a lucky dog’ – WTOP News
NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after Sylvester Stallone pulled off one of Hollywood’s all-time long shots with “Rocky,” the Oscar-winning star still identifies with the character who for many embodies the outsider proving all the naysayers wrong. But he no longer claims to be an underdog. “It would be so disingenuous to say you’re...
Stallone at 80 reflects on 'Rocky' 50 years later: 'I a
NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after Sylvester Stallone pulled off one of Hollywood’s all-time long shots with “Rocky,” the Oscar-winning star still identifies with the character who for many embodies the outsider proving all the naysayers
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