Sylvester Stallone Interview 1977 (Rocky) Brian Linehan's City Lights

In this interview from 1977, Sylvester Stallone talks about Rocky, the potential for Rocky II and Rocky III, other actors considered for the role of Rocky, his mother's gym, going to school in Switzerland and his first stage performance in Death of a Salesman. Watch this interview and find out what Sly Stallone was voted most likely to do when he was in school.
From 1974 to 2000, Canada’s Brian Linehan conducted thousands of in-depth interviews with the greatest actors and directors from over 60 years of film history. His programs City Lights and Linehan have not been seen since they first aired and are now available for the first time for licensing. Linehan, a stylishly gifted broadcaster, meticulously did all his own research and that, coupled with his knowledge and passion about film and filmmaking, puts him in a class all by himself.
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Brian Linehan, who passed away in 2004, left his entire estate to The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation to provide training, work opportunities and promotion for young actors of exceptional talent. All of the income of his Foundation is donated to not-for-profit institutions for that purpose. In the decade since his death, recipients of the Foundation’s support have included extraordinary young actors affiliated with the Canadian Film Centre, The National Screen Institute of Canada, the Stratford Shakespearean Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, which, since Brian's passing, has preserved and housed Brian's personal archive and tape library.

[@dubnessIII]

He's actually way smarter than people give him credit for

[@kiely4561]

He had a lot of charisma and intelligence, talented writer to, He definitely has many more layers than his action hero persona would lead you to believe

[@bonnie3447]

Not sure if many people think he's stupid. I've never heard of it.

[@waynegilbert5516]

He's an actor

[@johnreidy2804]

Not just smart but driven. The opposite of the average person

[@jjrj8568]

@@bonnie3447 he probably meant the Rocky character

[@nb6340]

"I was voted most likely to be electrocuted.. in my neighborhood". That was hilarious.

[@socialwarsmiejercito5608]

He has a very self deprecating sense of humour

[@charleswinokoor6023]

And the interviewer didn’t get the joke.

[@peternagy-im4be]

@@socialwarsmiejercito5608 self defecating

[@annemccarron2281]

He's hilarious!

[@sev2300]

Rocky really helped me in life.

[@ravingircey]

Brian Linehan was a meticulous researcher and interviewer, he brought out the best of his subjects with great questions and genuine interest.

[@tommmy1986]

Fantastic interview! Please post more rare sly interviews!

[@rizzotnr]

Wow! He was so right in 1977!

[@suzannelaforce6988]

Brian is a good interviewer. I really enjoyed this.

[@gypsygypsy7185]

I enjoy this interview a lot He intrigue me cause I relate to him in many ways

[@lolachicki7709]

100% my wish is to one day meet and talk to him he's brilliant

[@annemccarron2281]

I would love to meet him as well. He's so entertaining.

[@annastiskin9801]

Thanks for creating and writing all the Rocky movies 🎬 The Best 👏👏👏👍

[@johnreidy2804]

I would have asked him "Do you realize you are going to go through your third divorce in 2022"?

[@eccentricviews]

Thanks for the upload mate

[@punstress]

Interviewer: How do you pronounce your name, Stallone or Stalloneh? Sly: Stallone Interviewer from then on: Stalloneh, Stalloneh, Stalloneh. (PS I can relate, I have an Italian last name ending in 'e' and we do the same thing, silent e, since Americans can't pronounce it properly.

[@dusthue]

Well then tell us how to pronounce it properly. How is someone suppose to know? Without being told. I like hearing different languages but give people a chance if they choose.

[@lalisitabonita]

Well he was saying stalloney even though the real pronunciation is stalloneh

[@punstress]

@@dusthue I believe what I was saying is the interviewer asked how to pronounce it then ignored his answer. I correct people again and again when they mispronounce my name and they keep doing it. I don't correct them if they pronounce my final 'e' the proper Italian way, 'eh', but only if they pronounce it 'ee,' or sometimes 'ay.'

[@tmnl8037]

If this is the correct pronunciation, Fred Flintstone should be Fred Flintsoney! I can’t figure this out. Sylvester Stallone now suddenly becomes Sylvester Stalloney!

[@punstress]

@@tmnl8037 C'mon, Barney Rubbleh, you know Flintstone is not Italian.

[@mazzbalboa]

He looked better heavier than the trimmed down version. ....in my opinion.

[@peternagy-im4be]

Ok. Have a nice day.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

I could be wrong, but he seemed a lot more articulate and intelligent back then.

[@tutubeas10]

Hahaha! That's true. I think too much fame and fortune screwed him.

[@annemccarron2281]

No, he's still quite intelligent. He's funny, handsome, articulate, adventuresome, etc.

[@January.]

He said the "e" is silent but he continued to mispronouncr his last name.

[@theflyingninja1]

Interesting that he mentions Hells Kitchen, which because Paradise Alley, and a film about the labour movement, which clearly became F.I.S.T.

[@helgedell]

Screenplay by: Joe Eszterhas, Sylvester Stallone Story by: Joe Eszterhas Norman Jewison ran into Sylvester Stallone a day after Jewison attended a private pre-released screening of Rocky (1976). Jewison said: "After predicting that Rocky (1976) would be a big success, something that many were questioning at the time, I asked him (Stallone) if he'd like to read the script of my next picture [F.I.S.T (1978)]. He took it home and called me the next day to say that he wanted to do it. All we had was a verbal agreement. But he kept it. I have to respect him for that. I understand that he was later offered more than a million dollars to do another film instead". www.imdb.com/title/tt0077531/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv

[@Lordmij]

Agreed

[@lisssande410]

You are dam soo good honest takling funny to!!

[@cagelous_nicolai]

I feel offended for them not making the E silent 😂 "StallonE"

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

SYLVESTER STALLONE 06 DE JULIO DE 1946 77 AÑOS.

[@Rockstaralan]

So, I take it that this is who Martin Short parodied for his "Brock Linehan" celebrity interviewer character on SCTV?

[@socialwarsmiejercito5608]

I think that Martin Short got his idea for the character Fronk, in Father of the Bride, from Bronson Picot I think his name is, who played Serge in Beverly Hills Cop

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

BRIAN RICHARD LINEHAN 03 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1944 04 DE JUNIO DE 2004 79 AÑOS 59 AÑOS 20 AÑOS

[@abdulmumin6251]

How people think he is dump. He wrote rocky. People think he can't even read

[@joedellaselva1251]

6:20 James Caan THE MAN!!!!

[@msajir2197]

Good

[@muhdshafizabdaziz5029]

From Rocky to John Rambo

[@cameronpickard7456]

smartness visible

[@tmnl8037]

Sylvester Stalloney? It’s the first time I ever heard his name pronounced that way! Stalloney or Stallonie, that is the question? This is more confusing than William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” where it says “To Be Or Not To Be, That Is The Question?’

[@TonyMontana-ot7me]

I would love to see some suggestions so long naked in the city

[@allans7281]

What I want to know if Stallone sold the script to UA,would Stallone have had the right to write Rocky 2. Would that entire character saga have been the exclusive rights of UA?

[@mikepoppjr]

Yes

[@bytejourneycodes]

Why the url all the way on top of the video, it's a bit too much

[@LissjanitaSande]

Not say your mamma is ann alien slye offa da hes kundens heart you arw most like innside outside like your mamma!!❤❤😂😂❤

[@edwinmalachy]

"Sylvester "Staloneee"? what the heck?

[@realreview1285]

8:20 fate

[@TheDarkKnight80]

Stallony

[@MisterMemeDude]

57th comment

[@CarlinConnolly]

Those never-made scripts sound good - maybe should ahve stopped at 3 Rockys...

[@TonyMontana-ot7me]

Still needs to this

[@juliobasulto3288]

I'm a Big Believer Of GOD 🕊️ and a Dreamer Too. And i can tell you that I wrote A MOVIE SCRIPT For Arnold Schwarzenegger. And I want Mr. Sly. Sylverter Stallone as a "DIRECTOR" 🎞️🎞️🎞️🎥

[@TonyMontana-ot7me]

O

[@gnosis8142]

Can we establish this now - how is BASULTO prononced.