Could playing Sylvester Stallone put Anthony Ippolito in the Oscar ring?

NBC News · Greg Rosenstein · 2026-11-06 11:00 UTC

“I Play Rocky” tells the story of how a young Sylvester Stallone fought against massive Hollywood odds to write and star in the 1976 classic.

The producers of “I Play Rocky” initially set out to conduct a worldwide search for a lead actor to play Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone. Instead, they discovered their star via a self-tape he filmed in his grandma’s basement.

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