Stallone apologized for his ego / Nobody was willing to make “Rocky”.

Charso Press: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sylvester Stallone says that watching the 1958 Hollywood fantasy film “Hercules” starring Steve Reeves changed his life at the age of 12.

He emphasized: I was very lucky, in the golden age of film and when dialogue was important… But dialogues did not affect me as much as the actual physical effort to overcome problems.

Stallone was also introduced to comic books when he was imagining action heroes in his head, and now says that what inspired him was to help others, not as a superhero, but as a man.

He talked about working as a cinematographer after college and studying filmmaking. He said: By watching those movies again and again, you will see the magic. You realize it and it happened that I said I can do better than this and then I realized that no I can’t. very good.

But he persisted and used cinema and his job as a cinema controller to write the script for 101. He says: I only wrote about what I knew. “I wrote about this little guy who was mentally challenged and happened to have a big heart,” Stallone said of the early Rocky Balboa character he developed in his mind and on the screen. I wanted to write about a guy who says I’m not great at all, never will be, but I fight great fighters. I just want to get this experience…

This year’s Toronto Film Festival also screened the original Rocky, about an underdog boxer in Philadelphia, on Friday night.

Stallone added that Rocky and the Rocky Balboa character represent the pinnacle of his career, because at the beginning no one in Hollywood wanted to make this movie. No one wanted to build it, he said. While this was also my best writing.

The iconic Hollywood star, best known for his tough-guy films Rocky and Rambo, also talked about his early days as an actor, saying: “I didn’t have the bones to play Shakespeare.” As an artist it is important to know your strengths, but even more important is to know your weaknesses.

His long career in Hollywood as an actor, writer and producer dates back to 1976 and includes more than 50 films. His films have grossed about 3 billion dollars at the box office.

Stallone, however, is not very happy with clips from his early 1980s television appearances to market the early Rocky movies and says: “I really have to apologize.” My ego was so out of control.

The global icon of action films also spoke about his career in Hollywood in conjunction with the Netflix documentary Sly, directed by Tom Zimeny, which closes on September 16 at the Toronto Film Festival.

Stallone is known as a writer, director, actor and producer for films such as Rocky, the spin-offs of Creed, The Scoundrels, Wreck Man, Rock Climber and Police Land. He is also currently acting as Dwight Manfredi in the drama “Tulsa King”, Taylor Sheridan’s latest series, on the small screen.

Despite being a Netflix film, Sly was exempted from the Screen Actors Guild strike as a documentary, so the actor took to the red carpet in Toronto for his main interview. In this documentary, Stallone narrates his Hollywood journey from becoming a star after the inspiring story of “Rocky” to now.

“Action heroes should shut up,” Stallone said of his action films that focused on physical combat, including the 1982 action-adventure “First Blood.” Action figures who do heroic things don’t talk about it, they just do it.

He goes on to say: This means you have to be really ruthless and not care about being stupid… That’s when I understood what it means to lose yourself in acting. I didn’t care and I was literally the same guy at that moment.

The action actor also recalled that today’s Hollywood films, which are shot in front of green screens, are not his style and that he likes to shoot on location, not in a studio. He added emphatically: I like to be there where the challenge is more and more real.

The Toronto Film Festival ends on Sunday.