Shaan Puri
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Podcast Appearances
So he goes to his house.
And again, like sort of in that fuge state, he basically does two things.
He paints all the windows black.
And he's like, I'm not leaving this house.
I don't even want to know if it's night or day until I finish the script.
He hates writing.
So he's like, I just got to do this fast because I hate writing.
So in three days, he writes the script for Rocky.
And the story of Rocky, which is like this average guy wants to be a boxer, but it's not really happening for him.
It's a story of him wanting to be an actor, but he just chose boxing because it's more like physical, like knockout punch.
It's easier for the audience to understand, but it's his story.
And so then he goes and he pitches the script and people are like, actually, the script is pretty good.
He's like, awesome.
And they're like, we'll buy it.
It's great.
He's like, and I'm Rocky.
And they're like, no, no, you're not Rocky.
We'll buy the script, but you're not Rocky.
And so he has an offer, I think for a million dollars or something like that, which at the time was a lot of money.
And he...