Sylvester Stallone on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Promoting His New Movie, Rocky - pt.2

Sylvester Stallone on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson promoting His New Movie, Rocky - pt.2 - Airdate 12/16/1976 #johnnycarson #rocky ...

Video Script:: we're talking with the Sylvester sly a nickname that you've had for a long time sly is the natural nickname for Sylvester you just juxtaposition the L&Y and I think it's like a little pretentious for me to ask everyone that's a Sylvester if you like slide banners that make you mark on it it's quicker yeah where's home for you originally I was born in Hell's Kitchen New York and at the age of five I moved down oh really the entire population is here oh I moved down to Maryland yeah called Montgomery Hills and nickname affectionately Moki Hollow and I lived down there for a while reason I answered because a lot of a lot of people who reviewed your picture said that the street dialogue the dialogue is is good and so natural and honest and not having grown up the city but it has that that quality it doesn't seem affected and it's the way people talk it's a lovely scene you have in there with a young girl when you were with it yeah well you try to tout her off from hanging around with the older guys because she's trying to be hip and she's about what 14 or 15 and you're walking her home and you give her a little bit of advice it's nice and I'm so glad she didn't appear later in the picture it would have been like now we're gonna show you that she turned out all right but that was that was a good touch you couldn't afford her picture without being seen two mercenary what does this picture cost around a million dollars nine hundred sixty thousand and that sounds like a lot of money which it is but for a motion picture it's nowadays it's a it's nothing major motion picture is King Kong give you an idea across 25 million dollars to make that picture right so I'll put it in perspective no it's really excellent of the producers in the director and everyone I mean the director worked incredibly tight but John avildsen he were so tight on it and producers watched every every nickel and I don't think you really need that tremendous amount of money if you can write simple stories about ideals about philosophies that that deal and optimism that I really believe that like this man rocky if you're giving one opportunity just one chance to go the distance even if you fail it's alright you just want the opportunity to fail on and I believe it I feel so bad like for the majority of actors out there there's something like sixty some thousand actors maybe 300 acting roles right so all of them with just like one attempt yeah yeah yeah you're one of the but I think that this might open up a channels for a new talent yeah this is obviously changed your life a lot yes it does now I have 107 dollars no because all of a sudden you find that you you've got people around you that are kissing your hindquarters or giving you would giving you advice and telling you what you should do and want to handle you and you find a lot of that and it's a little awkward isn't it because you're not used to that and here all of a sudden they're coming from all the records I would guess no it is usually you find one under the placemat for success and stay cool and do it again I think we have a small film clip I think this scene is with burgess Meredith in which he is more or less ignored you when you wanted this help before you've been hanging around this sleazy gym and you said get out of here you're ham-and-egger and you're no good and you don't want to work and you'll never be a fighter then when you get a chance to fight the heavyweight champion of the world right who's the fellow who plays him look Carl Carl Weathers no it was very good that was a very difficult role he got the role by coming into the office and hitting me twice in the forehead anybody has that kind of audacity definitely deserves to be champ he plains Apollo Creed Hill a champion every way champion but this scene I just like to set up a little bit during the whole movie Rocky is very very quiet he takes everyone's goofy never opens his mouth he's just too nice and finally he's pushed to the limit and here he has to come out editorial eyes on a situation what it's like to be a loser never to have a prime right watch the monitor here in the studio here's a small film clip from Rocky I know you I know you can't say I just wondered you obviously had to train for this because did you ever give a box at all no no no look pretty good in there yeah it was it was I don't I don't think the audience today you can fool them anymore with almost choreographed the whole right I'd like to have like dubbed my head on someone's body but it wouldn't work here's all right nobody spent about six months doing that and Carl Weathers and I we we would go out to this gym which is like in the middle of behind a cactus somewhere in Chatsworth and what it is is we we bought so much that it comes down to about 35 40 hours rehearsal for each one minute of fighting on the film and we broke our ribs broke chest elbows and sensational closing the fight scene in there people actually practically jump out of their chairs you know like they're watching a real fight there look I know you can't stay I really wish you well it's a it's a super picture it's most entertaining and I congratulate both sides so stay cool and gonna come back and see me yeah thanks you