When you are pursuing acting, there are sometimes those dream roles that one feels destined to.<\/p>\n
“Been an actor for about nine years now. Getting a lot of smaller roles. Uncredited roles,” Scot Teller explained. “To get an opportunity like this from legendary people, it’s really like the Rocky story itself. I just got a million to one shot myself.”<\/p>\n
For local actor Scot Teller – a chance meeting with Oscar-nominated actor Griffin Dunne.<\/p>\n
“We ended up talking for like 30 minutes. Took some pictures,” Teller explained. “Amazing guy.”<\/p>\n
And a subsequent stand in spot\u2026<\/p>\n
“I found out the day before I was to report to the set that I would be standing in for Griffin Dunn,” he explained.<\/p>\n
\u2026Led to a serendipitous phone call.<\/p>\n
“He said it’s a Rocky movie,” Teller recalled. “I said am I gonna be standing in? He said I told them you’re an actor. I said, \u2018okay that’s good.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, Teller in his sports sanctuary in the Leesport area, surrounded by much of the Rocky mythology.<\/p>\n
“I had pizza shops in Berks County. Rocky’s pizza, Papa Rocko, never once did I think that I was gonna be Paulie someday,” he said.<\/p>\n
He’s prepping for the role of his life.<\/p>\n
“In this movie I have to play Burt Young, because Burt Young is auditioning for Paulie. So I have my work cut out for me,” he said.<\/p>\n
So as the call to set approaches, he\u2019s got a lot on his mind.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to do good, not only for my wife, my kids, but for a legendary actor that went out on a limb for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But he’s also thinking about someone no longer here.<\/p>\n
“When I’m not studying the character of Paulie, I’m thinking about my mom and just how proud she would be of me,\u201d Teller said.<\/p>\n
Stepping into an iconic role – in one of cinemas most memorable franchises – with mom’s supportive spirit in his corner.<\/p>\n
“I wish she was here because I know how proud she’d be of me right now,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you are pursuing acting, there are sometimes those dream roles that one feels destined to. “Been an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2402,2399,2400,2403,2401,128,130,129,2397,2398],"class_list":{"0":"post-2725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-acting","9":"tag-burt-young","10":"tag-cinema","11":"tag-movie-role","12":"tag-paulie","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-rocky","17":"tag-scot-teller"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}