00:00Stallone, unfortunately, had the problem of, you know, I guess not too many people taking him very seriously while he
00:07was kind of growing up.
00:08And he was he's an incredible writer.
00:11What's something that you took from that talk that that you carried through filming with you that helped you like
00:17really tap into who he was, the essence of him?
00:22A big part of it was just discussing the facial paralysis from the birth accident, because that created a certain
00:31speech impediment.
00:33You talk like you got rocks in your mouth.
00:36And it made it very, very difficult for him at a young age.
00:40I mean, Stallone, unfortunately, had the problem of, you know, I guess not too many people taking him very seriously
00:48while he was kind of growing up.
00:50And that was a really important thing to to be able to discuss with him.
00:54And he was nice enough to to kind of, you know, explain some of that to me.
