A few years ago, Ippolito took on the role of the legendary Al Pacino in the 2022 Paramount+ miniseries The Offer, which told the behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather.
You might wonder how similar his approaches were to playing these two major figures, and speaking exclusively to Radio Times ahead of the new film's UK release he admitted there were a few things in common.
View Green Video on the source website"But past that, I think approaching each of them as characters, they're very different individuals, and they've had incredibly different careers – both great careers and really talented guys. It's just they're vastly different. So they both had their own sort of challenges."
"I had to gain a good amount of weight just to kind of fill out and get that silhouette that he had in the first film," he said.
"He was a heavyweight boxer – in the movie, Rocky was – and Stallone was inspired by Steve Reeves, who played Hercules. He was a huge seminal actor for him, and he just developed this... it's an important part of him, and so that was difficult.
Although Stallone himself was not involved in the conception or the making of I Play Rocky, the star has recently sung his praises for Ippolito's performance, even explaining: "I actually thought it was me the first moment."
"That's just maybe a little too much," he said. "Obviously it was something that I was conscious of, but you just got so much stuff on your plate and you just got to put your head down and put your best foot forward.
As far as that goes, it looks like mission accomplished!
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