“Rejection encouraged me.” Considered an essential actor in American cinema today, Sylvester Stallone nevertheless went through a long and difficult period until he was offered the lead role in a feature film. Periods he revisits in the Stallone documentary Stallone.
As his former best enemy Arnold Schwarzenegger points out, Sly’s success is nothing short of luck. Tempted to abandon the acting profession he was passionate about, Stallone finally decided to take his fate into his own hands and wrote the script himself, which no other producer was willing to offer.
This script would be rocky and the success of the film would catapult Sylvester Stallone to the status of a movie superstar overnight. But as Quentin Tarantino, a spokesperson for the documentaryAction hero Iconic, nothing could have prepared the latter for the downsides that came with this new idol status.
Now 77-year-old Sylvester Stallone is keeping a clear eye on his journey in a new Netflix production. Willing to take full responsibility for his failures, the latter in particular reveals that sacrificing his family life for the sake of his career is his greatest regret.
“My job is to give hope” concludes Rock’s interpreter at the end of the documentary trailer for the event, which will be available exclusively on Netflix from November 3.
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