The Oscar winner also touched on the way political viewpoints explored in the franchise have been misinterpreted.
“But I got excoriated because the movie’s so violent.
It’s children being burnt alive.
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That’s what makes Civil War worse than anything.
It’s your neighbor, all of a sudden, killing you.
I was really happy with that film and I never thought it would ever reach the theater.
I thought, ‘They’re never going to show this.'”
(We also called it"the best movie 1986 never gave us.")
“OnRambo IV, I wanted to show what a .50-caliber could do to a human being.
We took a dummy and filled it with 200 pounds of beef,” he recalled.
“I thought, ‘When I fire, it will knock the dummy over.’
There were no bullets in the gun.
It was just the force of the compression in the shell.
But it turned the dummy into mist.
It blew it apart.
Then I turned the .50-caliber to a row of bamboo trees and it literally cut them in half.
This is without bullets!”
“[E]veryone assumed Rambo is a conservative,” he said.
“President Reagan posted a picture going, ‘Rambo’s a Republican.’
I went, ‘Uh-oh.’
Rambo is totally neutral.”
Reagan’s fascination with the character is well-documented.
In 1985, he wascaught on a hot micjoking about handling hostage negotiations like the character.
Furthermore, he himself rests in the middle of the aisle.
“He doesn’t even live in this country.
He feels scorned by it.
And my politics are: ‘May the best man win.’
I voted on both [sides], but I’m definitely in the middle,” Stallone insists.
Actually, I avoid some people because it sends out the wrong [message].
You’re asking yourself, ‘Do I really need this controversy?'"
Stallone will soon be seen in the mob dramaThe Tulsa King,which premieres on Paramount+ on November 13.
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