Tulsa King’s Cringey Scene Left Sylvester Stallone Depressed For a While
Despite all that, the actor still has a lot of career potential.
Summary:
- One of the greatest actors of the modern times, Sylvester Stallone’s long-standing career keeps going on, but sometimes the actor doesn’t feel that good about himself.
- Turning 78 this year, Stallone is still at the top with his first leading role on TV in the crime show Tulsa King, one scene of which actually made him feel bad about his presence in the series.
- The depressing period didn’t last long though — and Stallone is sure about not leaving the industry anytime soon.
After more than fifty years of a successful acting career, Sylvester Stallone still got it all — but sometimes he himself doubts it.
Despite a considerable age of 77 years, the legendary actor doesn’t seem to have a problem with keeping up with his younger colleagues, but one of his recent projects gave him a weird feeling about the whole situation.
2022 marked Stallone’s first leading role on television thanks to his crime drama show Tulsa King. The storyline follows Dwight "The General" Manfredi, a Mafia leader who is back on track after being released from prison and immediately sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he tries to revive his criminal career by forming a new organization.
Feeling somewhat out of place after 25 years of isolation, Dwight instead creates The Manfredi Crime Family.
Though Stallone definitely looks good even against his younger co-stars, one scene actually kind of hurt his feelings. Talking to The Hollywood Reporter recently, Stallone revealed his feelings about Tulsa King’s scene where his character sleeps with a woman who then asks how old he is — and when Dwight responds that he’s 75 she flees the room in horror.
According to Stallone, the scene “was quite flattering and also quite depressing” as he was the oldest actor in the show and, in his own opinion, could’ve been any of those people’s grandfather — and the realization of all this didn’t take long to appear.
Setting a bit of a depressing moment of his work on the show aside, Stallone doesn’t happen to be depressed about his age in real life as, according to the actor, he tries to embrace his inner kid more and more as the years pass — and he won’t “run out of gas” anytime soon.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter