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.
He's never been the brightest bulb in the pack.
ReplyDeleteI thought he did a great comedic turn in "Oscar" but how much of that is down to the brilliant support cast, I don't know.
ReplyDeleteOMG his face. His FACE. For God's sake, Sly, lay off the Restylane fillers!!
ReplyDeleteLawd, that face is nasty now. He's looking an awful lot like his mamma. I had such a crush on him in grade 9 :(
ReplyDeleteThe photo scares me.
ReplyDeleteHe seems like such a creep.
ReplyDeleteThank fuck he "passed" on Witness and Romancing the Stone. Love both movies. He could never be subtle enough for Witness and RtS is one of my all time fave movies. It's so perfect. I love it.
@West End Girl
ReplyDeleteI used to love "Oscar". Chazz Palminteri and Peter Reigert were hilarious in that movie.
He didn't say he was up for the leads, though.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he turned them down cos it was just for featured extra. or Danny DeVito's role.
Tee hee.
Good grief - He's starting to look like a caricature of himself from years ago.
ReplyDeleteWOW~did he get cover shot approval for that photo?? it is one of the creepist things I have seen in a long time!
ReplyDeleteI can't see him be offered Romancing the Stone inasmuch as Michael Douglas was both Producer and star. It is possible that the Witness and RTS scripts might have been shown to Stallone some time earlier in their evolution.
ReplyDeleteWhy does his face look like it was made of clay?
ReplyDeleteI loved Stallone in Copland. I thought he did a great job.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad he didn't do Romancing the Stone. As much as I hate Michael Douglas now, I loved that movie. Just watched it again recently.
I'm willing to bet he also passed on "Gone With The Wind" and "It's A Wonderful Life", too.
ReplyDeleteSly is definitely not an idiot. He wrote the screenplay for "Rockie". Not a bad effort. Of course I will grant you that his range as an actor is somewhat limited.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Diane Thomas write Romancing FOR Douglas? If memory serves she loved him in Streets of San Francisco and wrote the role for M. D.
ReplyDeleteAs for Witness, Harrison made that movie. I can't imagine Stallone in it. It would be like saying PeeWee Herman could be Rocky. YEAH RIGHT!
@ardleigh:
ReplyDeleteYou didn't know? Pee Wee passed on both the "Rocky" and the "Rambo" franchises.
Stallone is one of the actors who actually surprised me on Inside the Actor's Studio. He was articulate, interesting, and I for one, was totally shocked. The cover doesn't reflect the book. At least in that hour of television.
ReplyDeleteLOL @ Merlin
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a single Rocky or Rambo movie. Crazy, right????
But now, Stop or My Mom Will Shoot, I have seen. Hey, it had Estelle Getty in it. ;)
LOL @ Cigar Aficionado
Merlin, I can't stop laughing.
ReplyDeleteThe thought of Paul Reubens as Rambo is killing me!
I still can't get over his "don't look me in the eyes" douchery.
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