Sylvester Stallone, 76, promoted his new series Tulsa King in New York this week.
On Wednesday morning, he dropped by Live With Kelly And Ryan to talk about his early years living in Hell’s Kitchen, a poor and criminal neighborhood in Manhattan.
Before his big breakup with Rocky in 1976, he stayed in a transient hotel and shared a bathroom with about twenty people. “It was disgusting,” he said. “You can lie on the bed – open the window, close it,” he said of the cramped living conditions he endured at the time.
Stallone on Live: The filmmaker joined co-hosts Kelly and Ryan on their morning show ahead of the premiere of his upcoming Tulsa King TV show
According to Celebrity Net Worth, he is worth $400 million.
He then talked about revisiting his hometown of Hell’s Kitchen.
In response to co-host Kelly Ripa asking if it would be emotional to return to his old neighborhood and remember where it all began, he said yes.
“Yeah, I really do, because, you know, it’s like you don’t want to cry like I’m over there. You know, like I’ve bathed that mouth of ‘fire,’ he shared.
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He talked about embracing his emotional propensity, ‘I hate it because I’m one of those guys who cries at the opening of a letter.
‘I don’t know why or where it comes from… but it’s my feminine.’
One of the first jobs early in his career was as an usher.
He would secretly record shows to later study the dialogue. “I was listening to the tapes and I was like, let me try to write this line differently. Let me try to write this line.
He started playing a game – “a type of crossword puzzle” – to discover and develop his own style of filmmaking. “That’s what you do when you have nothing to do, isn’t it?” »
The actor told Kelly and Ryan that was how he learned filmmaking when he couldn’t afford to go to film school at the time. “Let’s face it, you watch a movie a hundred times and try to figure out the stuff.
In his hometown where he lived while struggling to break into the film industry, Stallone revealed his role in creating an upcoming Netflix documentary about the history of Hell’s Kitchen.
Tribute: The actor posted a photo of himself meeting Queen Elizabeth II during his Rocky era
He later opened up about the throwback photo he posted on his Instagram as a tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II. He recalled when he had the opportunity to meet the Queen around his Rocky days.
He described the interaction he had with his favorite queen. ‘She actually said, ‘Oh, that’s Rocky.’ And I was like, oh come on.
While on his Tulsa King press tour, Stallone also recently visited Italy. There he met and met with another head of state – President Sergio Mattarella.
Looking sharp: The Tulsa King frontman donned a gray blazer over his black turtleneck and pants as he arrived on the Live on Kelly and Ryan morning show
The Rambo actor was stuck in a parking lot for about three hours because the president was having a meal nearby.
‘All [was] blocked – doors, guards, everything. When Stallone finally entered to ask for help unlocking his vehicle, he saw “a knight in shining armor” guarding the President.
“When the president shows up, they always have this traditional knight hanging around, so I walked past the knight and was like, ‘Hey, how are you? “, Stallone told the president.
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The president then told him how to get out of the parking lot, and Stallone left for his press event at Tulsa King.
The upcoming mob drama will be the award-winning actor’s first TV debut, but he said he still prefers movies.
Stallone said he no longer had a choice whether or not to work solely in films: “The film business as I knew it and grew up with it is gone.”
Many things have changed. These days, he observed that the film industry is focused on making “big, mega, tentpole movies like Marvel.” A “small” movie like Rocky would never have been released but rather streamed.
The new show he will star in tells the story of New York mob capo Dwight ‘The General’ Manfredi. The protagonist is released from prison and exiled by his boss to settle in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
After growing suspicious of his Mafia family, the General slowly builds his own crew from an unlikely cast of characters to help him establish a new criminal empire.
The first episode will be released exclusively on Paramount+ on November 13.