Admits he signed up for the flop, \u0022Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot,\u0022 only because he thought his rival wanted the role
The 76-year-old Stallone starred in the 1992 comedy movie “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot” alongside Estelle Getty, but said he was tricked into signing up for the flop because he had heard his rival wanted the project.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“We truly, truly loathed each other. He’s quite clever. He goes around town saying, ‘I can’t wait to do this film…’ I go to my agent, ‘Get that thing away from him. Get people options on me.’ I got it and I said, ‘What a piece of sh– this is.’ He goes, ‘Ha ha ha!’ At least I wasn’t pregnant in a film. Arnold, we’re even.”
The “Rocky” star went on to describe sparring with boxing legends over the years, which often led to injury.Article content “I sparred with Ali. Joe Frazier gave me 11 stitches and that was in about two seconds. I was thinking about using him instead of Mr. T in Rocky 3. I said, ‘Let me use a real fighter.’ That’s not a good idea. They don’t know how to stop pulling their punches, that’s the whole point. They think, ‘I’ll just follow through’. Earnie Shavers literally almost beat me to death without trying. wearing 20 ounce gloves.
“I thought, ‘What’s the big deal guys?’ I tell you what, you stand in there, [he said] ‘You’re supposed to play a goalie, I’m going to tell you exactly where I’m going to kick it [the ball] and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.’ I stand in the corner and all I hear is this [woosh]… next thing I know, my finger’s broken. It [the ball] tore through the back of the net and broke a window.
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