{"id":911429,"date":"2026-09-27T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911429\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:18:14","slug":"sylvester-stallone-says-rocky-filming-got-nasty-during-dads-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911429\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone Says ‘Rocky’ Filming Got “Nasty” During Dad’s Cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Sylvester Stallone<\/a> made his breakout performance in Rocky<\/a>, there was one person he couldn\u2019t quite turn into a fan.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile discussing his memoir The Steps, releasing Oct. 23, the 3x Oscar nominee recalled things on set getting \u201creally nasty\u201d after giving his real father Frank Stallone Sr. a cameo as the bell ringer in the 1976 boxing drama\u2019s climactic match.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was like: I just want you to love me for a little bit,\u201d Sly explained to The New York Times<\/a>. \u201cLike, look what I did! Share it with me. I know you thought I was a fool my whole life, but here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the day of filming, Frank Sr. \u201cdidn\u2019t ring the bell properly,\u201d as his son \u201ckept fighting and fighting and fighting. Everything\u2019s choreographed. It\u2019s one, two, three, four, bell. Not six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Carl Weathers is like, \u2018What\u2019s going on?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStallone continued, \u201cAnd of course it ended up in an altercation by the end. It got really nasty. A really bad Italian drama. But for a moment I thought, Jesus, he\u2019d be proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSylvester Stallone in \u2018Rocky\u2019 (1976)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEverett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the interview, Stallone explained that his father \u201cwas very, very cold and tough\u201d until they reconciled upon his death in 2011.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt would be these constant bombastic explosions and then total silence,\u201d recalled Stallone of living alone with his dad. \u201cIf he and I were talking and I said, \u2018I don\u2019t know if I agree with that,\u2019 he\u2019d start spinning his fork and suck his teeth, and you knew what was coming. The next thing you know, wham! He had very big hands. You learn to duck. I didn\u2019t put a lot of stuff in the book because I didn\u2019t want a pity party, but it was insane.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the biopic I Play Rocky, premiering Nov. 6 in theaters, Anthony Ippolito plays a young Stallone as he writes the first Rocky movie and fights to star as the titular boxer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Sylvester Stallone made his breakout performance in Rocky, there was one person he couldn\u2019t quite turn into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,83694,24774],"class_list":["post-911429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-rocky","tag-sylvester-stallone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}