Stallone in Italy for the launch of Paramount Plus: “there will be a war on Rocky’s rights”

Sylvester Stallone is arriving in Rome for the launch event of the new streaming platform Paramount Plus, which debuts in Italy on September 15th. Sly took advantage of the Italian trip to attend the Monza Grand Prix yesterday (“unfortunately they didn’t let me drive, I’m too big to get into the cockpit”, he joked), this morning he stopped in Milan for an interview with Radio Deejay with Linus and Nicola Savino and tonight he will arrive in Rome where he will meet the press and will participate in the presentation of Paramount Plus on Wednesday evening at Cinecittà. One of the business cards of the new platform is in fact the ‘Tulsa King’ series which sees Stallone in the role of Mafia boss Dwight “The General” Manfredi, who comes out of prison after 25 years and returns to his New York, where, however, the balance of power has changed. The new boss decides to send him to run the business in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There The General tries to reform his gang, with a host of unlikely characters who will help him build his new criminal empire. “In Tulsa there are no Italians, so to help my character are cowboys, characters that are too fat and too thin, women. A strange gang that however manages to conquer power in a short time and when the bosses of New York arrive to ask for the they part and I tell them: I’m sorry “, said the guest star live on ‘Deejay calls Italy’. Commenting on the enviable form with which he faces his 76 years, Stallone said: “I have just recovered because I have not trained for two years: I have had 5 back operations”. As for the diet, he added: “From 35 to 45 I paid a lot of attention to what I ate. And I was too addled. Now I eat everything. But when I overdo it, I don’t eat anything the next day.” The actor said that when he started doing Rocky he wasn’t already very trained: “I was on average ok,” he admitted. “Then I trained for the movies,” he added. Stallone also said that the legal dispute to have part of the rights generated by the ‘Rocky’ series recognized by the producer: “It will be a war. I’m going to get them!”, He said with a threatening face. True that he had to be the protagonist of ‘Terminator’ instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone replied: “I have too irregular features: eyes down, nose crooked. I could not be a robot”. Sly confessed that even Rambo’s character frightened him at first, “the script involved a savage man who kills everyone: I softened it up a bit before accepting”, said the actor who in radio vision was removed one of the boots he was wearing to show it to Linus and Savino. “They are the exact copy of a pair of Roy Rogers cowboy boots from 75 years ago. I had seen them in a museum and I had them made the same by a craftsman.”