Sylvester Stallone on finally playing a mob boss in new series: ‘Better late than never’
23.06.2022 - 05:31
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Sylvester Stallone is taking on the role of his lifetime. The actor, 75, shared with Entertainment Tonight at the U.K. premiere of "Tulsa King" that he is excited to take on the role of Dwight "The General" Manfredi.
"I’ve always wanted to play a gangster since... I basically started off my career mugging everyone... but it never happened. I have my thoughts on why, but better late than never," he said. "Taylor Sheridan wrote an idea, a screenplay that was really good and Terence Winter, who wrote ‘Sopranos’and ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ they put it all together and what you have is East meets West." Sylvester Stallone is taking on a role he's wanted his entire career.
He will star as a mob boss in Paramount+ new series, "Tulsa King." (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) He continued: "[My character, Dwight,] comes out of prison after 25 years, expects to be rewarded for keeping his mouth shut and he's betrayed." He added that his character's next assignment is to run Tulsa in "a different world, different kind of people, and he starts to become indoctrinated into the Western sort of life. So, it's a combination of the two. It’s a dark comedy, but also it can get rough." The drama series features Garett Hedlund, Jay Will, Domenick Lombardozzi and Max Casella.
It will air this November. Stallone shared how he was introduced to one of the shows’ writers, Taylor Sheridan. Stallone attended the Paramount+ UK Launch on June 20, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) "My daughters and I were practicing — I play polo a lot; a long time ago people would say, how can you afford it? I played with the worst horse on the planet, but I learned and eventually after I made money, I started to go into... barrel
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