Sylvester Stallone Recalls Doing ‘Cop Land’ For Free To Escape Being Seen As “A Lump Of Meat”

Sylvester Stallone Recalls Doing ‘Cop Land’ For Free To Escape Being Seen As “A Lump Of Meat”

Sylvester Stallone is doing a career retrospective interview with The New York Times as part of a promotional tour for his upcoming memoir, and he’s talked about wanting to be seen as a serious actor, revealing why he gravitated toward making a movie like James Mangold‘s often-overlooked corrupt cop thriller “Cop Land,” where he would gain a bunch of weight and play against type as the soft-spoken small-town sheriff dealing with a group of degen…