Sylvester Stallone says he would not advise actors to do their very own stunts within the film biz … and seven surgical procedures oughta function a warning — you listening, Tom Cruise???
The legendary motion star made the revelation in a current episode of his Paramount actuality present, “The Family Stallone,” the place he stated he’d undergone greater than half a dozen again surgical procedures to take care of an damage he suffered on the set of “The Expendables” again in 2010.
Mainly, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin — who’s additionally within the film — was body-slamming Sly on set … and the dude was truly absorbing the blows, going take after take after take.
He says, “I did stupid stuff. I was directing ‘Expendables’ and like an idiot I’m doing take ten, take whatever, and I remember one slam and I could actually feel one bang. Steve knew. I never recovered from Expendables 1. After that film, it was never physically the same.”
Sly provides .. “I’ve warned people — don’t do your own stunts.”
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SS fractured his neck and wanted a steel plate inserted to stabilize issues — and as he jokingly notes … his subsequent function could be Quasimodo in a ‘Hunchback’ flick.
Whereas he could be discussing it in jest on his present — the accidents/surgical procedures are fairly severe … apparently, Sylvester’s medical doctors have informed him he would possibly want synthetic discs popped into his decrease backbone down the road, and his spouse Jennifer Flavin says on the present it is robust on the household.
