Rocky: What happened to Talia Shire, who played Burt Young’s sister and Sylvester Stallone’s wife?

While Bert Young, Paul’s interpreter in the Rock movies, has just left us, let’s focus on the interpreter of another key “secondary” character in the saga: Talia Shire, who plays Adrian Balboa. What did he shoot besides rock?

The beginning of a family

Talia Shire rose to fame with her role in The Godfather and The Godfather Part 2. The latter also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. She plays Constance “Connie” Corleone, daughter of Don Vito Corleone and Carmella Corleone and younger sister of Sonny, Michael, Fredo, Michael and Tom Hagen.

Sister of Francis Ford Coppola, she was married to composer David Shire from 1970-1978.

Rocky Adventure

After two Godfather films, he was contacted by Sylvester Stallone to play the role of Rocky, the companion of the boxing hero in Adrian Pennino’s role. He receives a paltry salary of $7,500 (Burt Young seems to be the highest paid on the set) and brings some of his own wardrobe because the budget is tight, confident in the personality of the actor and screenwriter. FYI, Adrian’s last name is a nod to Talia’s grandfather, Francesco Penino.

He then appears in the next four parts of the Balboa saga. Adrian gradually becomes more and more important, representing the mind to the increasingly lost and bruised Rock. She is also, of course, the sister of Rocky’s loyal friend, Paulie Pennino, who despite her mistakes becomes a member of his training team. Adrian dies off-screen 16 years, which separates Rocky V from Rocky Balboa.

But also…

Between Rocky and The Godfather 3, Talia Shire starred in many TV movies and films overlooked in France that are worth discovering, such as Joan Tewksbury’s Old Boys (1979), the story of a psychiatrist looking for her ex-boyfriends. , most of which had a negative impact on his life.

In the 90s and 2000s, he continued to work a lot, but often played a third role in films that did not come down to us. In recent years, she has appeared as a guest in several TV series, such as Kingdom, Grace and Frankie or Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce.

We’ll find him in 2024 (at the Cannes Film Festival?) in the credits of Megalopolis, signed by his brother Francis Ford Coppola, about an architect trying to create a utopia in New York.