Rocky, which won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Editing, and Best Director, was made on a small $1 million budget—and it made newcomer Stallone a star.
But the scene wasn’t originally planned as it was shown. During a 2025 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Stallone, 79, admitted he hadn’t even thought about shooting a scene at the Philly landmark and didn’t have a location permit.
Stallone noted that his real-life dog, Butkus, who appeared in the film, was almost in the scene. “The first take, I said, 'Let me carry my dog up the steps,’” Stallone recalled. “My dog is a buffalo; it's a 130 lb. bull mastiff. I get halfway up, my knees buckle. We're like, 'Dog, out. Back in the car, pal.'"
Sylvester Stallone was always 'fascinated' by steps
Stallone talked about the significance of the art museum steps scene in a 2021 interview posted by The Philadelphia Inquirer on YouTube.
Fifty years after the first Rocky film—there would be five sequels and three Creed spinoffs—the art museum steps remain a major tourist attraction in Philadelphia.
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