Sylvester Stallone Passed On Witness And Romancing The Stone

Sylvester Stallone gave an interview to the current issue of Cigar Aficionado where he talked about cigars and he also talked about movies. The focus of the interview was about how he blames the downfall of his career on doing movies like Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot. He says he took the paycheck then and did not ever think about what being in roles like that or Rhinestone would do to his career.

I think his problem is that he is just not that great of an actor and people got tired of Rocky and Rambo. Anyway, the thing that fascinated me the most in the interview was that he said he was offered but turned down Witness and Romancing The Stone.

That kind of took me by surprise for a second. There is no way he could have ever pulled off the Harrison Ford part in Witness. Not a chance in hell. The movie would have sucked. He also would have sucked just as bad and made a nightmare out of Romancing The Stone. He can't do comedy and it just would have been Rambo in Colombia. I am so grateful that for whatever reason he turned down those two movies. Thank you baby Jesus. And yes, I am also grateful he is not in that movie too.