Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed he once turned down an invitation to set sail with Sylvester Stallone.
17.09.2023 - 06:29 / variety.com
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic For decades, as I’ve watched Sylvester Stallone on talk shows or caught bits and pieces of promotional interviews with him, my impression, without pondering it much, has been that he’s a dude with a certain charismatic native intelligence. Yet “Sly,” the infectious and fascinating portrait of Stallone and his movies that premiered today at the Toronto Film Festival, is built around an interview with Stallone conducted in his splendid, art-bedecked Mediterranean-style mansion in Beverly Hills (he has since sold it to Adele). And throughout the film, he’s so calmly but blazingly articulate, so candid about the processes of moviemaking and his strengths (and weaknesses) as an actor, so wise about the meaning of his own stardom, that I realized, with a touch of embarrassment, a prejudice I’ve been carrying around for 47 years.
Deep in my reptile brain, I still think Sylvester Stallone is Rocky. I think a lot of people do. On the surface, that may not seem such a garish misjudgment.
We all fall into the trap of “believing” that certain actors are the characters they play. We think of Humphrey Bogart and imagine him as…Bogart. Sean Connery was indelible as James Bond because he really seemed like he was James Bond.
That said, we live in an age of media overexposure where an actor like Stallone has had every kind of chance to demonstrate that he’s not Rocky Balboa. His other iconic role, the kamikaze Vietnam veteran John Rambo, could hardly have been more different. Watching “Sly,” what hit me is why Rocky stuck so completely to Stallone, and Stallone to Rocky.
Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed he once turned down an invitation to set sail with Sylvester Stallone.
People recently how the “Rocky” star, 77, would call him and ask: “Want to come on the yacht?”“What, do you think I’m going to ask, ‘When can I have dinner?’ It’s not going to happen,” Schwarzenegger joked. “I can get my own yacht. That’s not my trip.
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