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Sylvester Stallone hates ‘Rhinestone’
“You do become a megalomaniac,” Stallone, 64, said during a retrospective of his career at the Los Angeles Film Festival. “Especially when you do action films.”
Stallone, best known for playing a mumbling boxer in the “Rocky” series, has been a writer and director as well as an actor. He combines all three roles in “The Expendables,” an action thriller about a team of mercenaries in South America.
The movie, which opens Aug. 13, co-stars Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and Jason Statham, and features a cameo by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stallone’s character reassesses his profession after working with a freedom fighter.
“There’s a damsel in distress and she has a lot more morality than I do, and it starts to get to me,” Stallone said. “We realize we’re very successful, but at what price? We sold our souls for gold.”
“Rocky,” released in 1976, won three Oscars, including best picture, and was nominated for seven more. None of Stallone’s movies since then has achieved that kind of critical acclaim.
“Rhinestone” (1984) was conceived as a modest film about a down-and-out cab driver’s encounter with a country music star, but script changes turned it into a bloated unfunny comedy, Stallone said.
“Rambo III” (1988), set during the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan, became little more than a series of action stunts. Stallone blames himself for relating too much to his fictional character. “You get a sense, maybe I can do this stuff and you can’t,” he said. “I hold myself totally responsible.” © Bloomberg News, 2010
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