SYLVESTER STALLONE ADMITS NOT TO BE A VERY GOOD ACTOR
During the promotion of the new Rambo, the American actor indulged in some confidences, proving once again all the hindsight he can have on his career.
Rocky, Rambo: there aren't many actors who can boast of having played two such iconic pop culture characters as Sylvester Stallone. Even his rival Arnold Schwarzenegger. Because Terminator, ok, that's classy, but Predator, contrary to popular belief, it's not him. This is the monster he faces.
But the time has come for Rambo to put his big knife away, after a final B-like movie, in which the Vietnam War veteran smashes the members of a Mexican cartel that has taken on his niece. The film doesn't necessarily end the legend in the best possible way, with a finale where Rambo has set traps all over his ranch. It feels a bit like Mom, I missed the plane, but with more blood. A LOT more blood. As for Stallone, who co-wrote the film, he does pure Stallone, alternating between a character who undergoes the action, looking sullen, before putting his muscles in the service of a cause, and killing everything. the world in its path, Taken way.
This lightness in the role has not escaped the star, who is perfectly aware of it. During the promotion of Rambo: Last Blood, Sylvester Stallone gave an interview to 20 Minutes, in which he even questions his acting abilities:
WE ARE NOT GOING TO LIE. SOME ACTORS LIKE DANIEL DAY LEWIS CAN PLAY EVERYTHING. I UNDERSTOOD THAT IS NOT MY CASE. I AM LUCKY TO HAVE A REGISTRY IN WHICH I AM EXCELLENT, I WILL STAY THERE.
A lucid and sincere observation, which will in any case have allowed him to lead an exemplary career, perfectly embodying the American action films which hit hard during the 1980s and 1990s (he was also on the bill for other "classics "like Judge Dredd or Demolition Man). But he also wowed critics by playing the role of a battered and victimized cop in Copland, before returning to the front of the stage - and the ring - in the Creed franchise, for which he reprized his other emblematic role, that of Rocky Balboa, the boxer who shouts "Adriaaaaaaaaaaaaan".
But while one might think that at 73 years old, Sylvester Stallone could take advantage of the end of the Rambo saga to also retire, he slips this little sentence, which risks knocking out more than a nostalgic:
