SYLVESTER STALLONE: “I Wasn’t Stupid. I Was Just Misunderstood.”
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How did a fortune teller predict Sylvester Stallone’s future?
So one of my best memories growing up, and I don't have a lot of those, was actually watching Rocky with my dad. And my dad introduced me to the franchise and I know this for sure. I've watched the Rocky franchise, including Five and Balboa after that, more than I've watched any other franchise in my lifetime. Uh so I watch it back every year. There's only there's only two things I watched to get motivated every year and one of them is Rocky's.
I thought you were gonna ask for a refund. Okay, great.
Hey, it's Jay. I don't know what your day's been like, but I was just thinking about you for a minute. And I hope you're being a little patient with yourself because you deserve it. And yeah, I'll talk to you soon.
Sylvester Stallone, welcome to Unload. Thank
you very much. Appreciate it.
I wanna start off by saying I I don't get to start every interview this way. I've had the fortune of interviewing lots of incredible people, people who've achieved amazing things, done amazing things. But it's rare that you get to sit down with one of your personal heroes.
No.
I wanted to ask you, you start this book. Telling us about the fortune teller. And I wanted to know why you start there. Why do you tell us what's about to happen?
I just think there's more things happening in the universe than we tend to take give credit to and I was at the very lowest level. At I'm at that age of what everyone's trying to find themselves in and I think we have about three or four major crossroads that we have and that's one that comes around twenty one years old, twenty that you go, What am I going to do? What am I going to be? How do I f find the right path, what's gonna trigger my journey. And as I was walking down this gravel road in the mountains, I see like a i I said, it looked like the sign of a gypsy or something like fortune. It you saw a hand, there's some lines up here. It's either a bathroom to wash your hands or it's a gypsy, one of the two.
So I went in there and sure enough, it was like a real gypsy and She spoke broken English and she said things. that came true years later and I went oh my God. So I've always believed from that moment on, even though I was born Catholic, you know, I I went through the whole process of theology, but Sometimes as you get older you bring in t the question, you know, what is God? What is the future? What is this? What is that? Yet we'll listen to a fortune teller, yeah, but we sometimes we uh we don't believe the church, but we'll believe some burst person in a in a little shack. Well, I did at that time and I wrote down everything and I would say eighty percent came true. Right. To the to the T. They said, well
They were right about that. But also a woman will bring you into the circle of attention and that was a woman named Jane Oliver who picked me out of this for some odd reason I had nothing going for me but she says, You have it I goes I know 'cause I felt I I've m met people like Dustin Hoffman or whatever and I s some people just have this thing and then also you will be fame by nineteen seventy five, seventy six, which is what Rocky came and so on and so forth. So there's many of these situations that came about from her talking to me in the mountains. But luckily I was writing everything down at that time, which I think is important. I think if people jot down their thoughts when they're very early and reflect back on them twenty or thirty, forty years later, they'll be quite astounded at how astute they were back then.
Because I think when you're young you you just you're spun. Yeah. And you're looking for some kind of pathway, doorway, a key, uh uh something that triggers a a pathway. And that's what happened with me. It was just a thing that triggered it and I never look back.
What was the twenty percent that didn't come through?
Well, it said, Be married three times. I go, How do you know? I mean, that's pretty bold statement. It said you were protected by some actor from beyond who had dark hair. I'm going, that's just about everybody. So I I couldn't take that one too seriously.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did a fortune teller predict Sylvester Stallone’s future?
0:01–11:52
2
What childhood hardships and boarding‑house experiences shaped his early life?
11:52–23:18
3
Why did Stallone turn down a $360,000 offer to keep the role of Rocky?
23:18–34:05
4
How did imposter syndrome affect him while writing and playing Rocky?
34:05–45:08
5
In what ways does Stallone channel his personal pain into his acting?
45:08–55:49
6
What insights does he share about his painful relationship with his mother?
55:49–1:06:09
7
How does he describe coping with health battles and aging gracefully?
1:06:09–1:16:03
8
What final advice does Stallone give about friendship, marriage, and his life philosophy?
1:16:03–1:25:42
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