Sylvester Stallone has responded to the news of his biopic, I Play Rocky, by reminding everyone that he is still alive. For decades, the actor has been the one throwing punches on screen, so watching someone else play him is a strange new role. The story of how that career began now has its own film, and the man at the center of it has plenty to say about it all.

While Hollywood rushed to film his life story, Stallone wondered whether anyone had checked that the story was actually finished.

Sylvester Stallone was confused at first, and the timing was the whole problem. Anthony Ippolito plays the young Stallone, and one video nearly fooled the star. Then the young version of him did the trick, as a couple of camera angles had Stallone convinced he was watching himself.

"Kind of mixed because I'm going, 'I'm not dead yet. Aren't we jumping the g** a little bit?'" Stallone said at 92NY.

He added, "then I saw this video of this kid [Ippolito]. I actually thought it was me the first moment."

I Play Rocky premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, and Peter Farrelly directed it. The story follows the turbulent making of the 1976 original. Stallone insisted at 92NY that he had nothing to do with it, beyond telling Ippolito to ask if any questions came up. The star joked that watching Ippolito made him wonder whether he really talks that way, and now he gets it.

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While Ippolito recreates the making of Rocky on screen, Stallone has one backstage tale that involves his own father.

Sylvester Stallone told The New York Times, while promoting his memoir The Steps, that his father sparked an altercation on the set of Rocky. He had cast his father as the timekeeper, hoping the small role would let the older man witness his son's breakthrough. The bell never rang on cue in the climactic fight, and trouble followed. Rocky Balboa kept fighting anyway, and the meticulously choreographed sequence lost all rhythm.

Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed, was left wondering why the fight kept going past its cues. The choreography called for the bell after four counts. Stallone had imagined a proud father-and-son moment, yet the scene turned chaotic off camera. Their relationship carried strain, shaped by a**** and distance, though Polo later softened things before Frank Stallone Sr. died in 2011. Stallone may think Hollywood is jumping the g** on his life story, but one missed bell cue proves he has never been short on material.

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