Sylvester Stallone Made a Major Change to Rocky Based on a Friend's Suggestion
Nearly 50 years ago, actor Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa was a down-on-his-luck club fighter who worked as a seedy collector on the docks. After six films and aCreedspin-off franchise, featuring three of its own installments, fans forget that the Italian Stallion originally served as a muscle-bound collector to the disreputable but likable Tony Gazzo (Joe Spinell) inRocky. And originally, Balboa was supposed to be an even darker character in director John G....