{"id":303491,"date":"2025-11-20T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303491\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:19:09","slug":"anthony-ippolito-recreates-iconic-stairway-scene-in-rocky-origin-story-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303491\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Ippolito Recreates Iconic Stairway Scene in ‘Rocky’ Origin Story Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Rocky’ Origin Story Flick
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Yo, Adrian … check out Anthony Ippolito’s form while he runs like Sylvester Stallone<\/a> in a new movie all about the making of “Rocky.”<\/p>\n

The actor hit Sly’s old stompin’ grounds out in Philadelphia to shoot a pivotal scene for the biopic “I Play Rocky” Wednesday … with cameras capturing him running up the stairs now known as the “Rocky Steps” — named after the iconic character who ran up them in the OG movie — which lead up to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

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Check it out … Ippolito’s outfitted in an all-gray track suit and black beanie, just like Stallone wore in the first movie. He successfully makes it up the steps and bounces around in triumph — before collapsing at the end of the shot.<\/p>\n

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Several other actors — also dressed up like it’s the late ’70s — rush over to him … so, it’s clearly a scene for the film, though there doesn’t appear to be a record of Stallone injuring himself during this specific scene.<\/p>\n

For further proof he didn’t really hurt himself, watch our clip all the way to the end … they even rehearsed him going down while clutching his calf.<\/p>\n

Variety shared a first look at the movie last month … publishing a photo of Ippolito, dressed as Rocky Balboa, running along the sand with a big dog — a stand-in for Rocky’s pup, Butkus, who was actually Stallone’s real-life dog back in the day.<\/p>\n

Filming’s set to take place in Philly, New York City and Los Angeles … with Stephan James, AnnaSophia Robb, Matt Dillon<\/a>, Tracy Letts and more stars taking part in the action as well.<\/p>\n

And, anyone worried about Ippolito playing an iconic actor can breathe a sigh of relief … after all, he previously starred as Al Pacino<\/a> in “The Offer” — a series about the making of “The Godfather.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Rocky’ Origin Story Flick ‘Gonna Fly Now’ … Anthony Ippolito Races Up Stairs For New Film Published November…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-303491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}