Sylvester Stallone squashes rumours of a feud with Robert De Niro, who he starred with in Cop Land and Grudge Match.
Sylvester Stallone has taken to Instagram to set the document straight on a supposed feud with Robert De Niro. To make a protracted story quick, it by no means occurred, with Stallone cautioning followers that you may’t consider every part you learn.
“I simply bought again from the set of Tulsa King and simply wish to tackle one thing that I feel is form of an absurd rumor about myself and Robert De Niro by no means desirous to work with one another once more,” Stallone stated. “And having all types of offended feedback about our stance on life and our philosophies, no matter. We’ve by no means had this dialogue, most likely by no means will, and I simply wish to say you’ll be able to’t consider every part you learn.“
The hearsay of a feud between the 2 actors originated earlier this yr from a “parody” web site which ran the headline, “Sylvester Stallone Declines To Work With Robert De Niro on a $1 Billion Challenge, ‘He’s A Woke Creep.’” Radio present host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones additionally shared the headline on X/Twitter, the place it rapidly unfold.
Stallone and De Niro beforehand labored collectively on Cop Land, James Mangold’s extremely underrated crime thriller, which additionally starred Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert Patrick, and extra. In addition they appeared in Grudge Match, a sports activities comedy about getting older boxers stepping again into the ring one final time.
Within the Instagram video, Stallone additionally talked about that he’s within the last weeks of manufacturing on the second season of Tulsa King in about two weeks. The Taylor Sheridan-created sequence follows Dwight “The Common” Manfredi (Stallone), a Mafia capo who’s launched from jail and brings to arrange a legal group in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whereas making an attempt to repair his relationship together with his estranged daughter. The second season synopsis reads: “With looming threats from the Kansas Metropolis mob and a really highly effective native businessman, Dwight struggles to maintain his household and crew protected whereas protecting monitor of all his affairs. Plus, he nonetheless has unfinished enterprise again in New York.” The second season will debut on Paramount+ on September fifteenth.
