On Set With Stallone and ‘The Expendables’
by Tom TappNew behind the scenes footage from Sylvester Stallone’s star-studded “The Expendables” has been posted on the film’s official blog. Pretty cool stuff.
It contains some action sequences, including one where Steve Austin and Eric Roberts outrace an explosion, shots of Sly directing gunplay and a very low flyover from what looks like a disabled seaplane.
While the blog says Stallone has “lost 32 pounds since Rambo and currently weighs in at 180,” I don ‘t believe it.
The guy’s arms are still as big as my legs. And if you look at them closely you can see some of the faux tattoo work his character sports in the film poking out from underneath his sleeves.
The footage also gives a sense of what it would be like to work with Stallone: He seems focused, professional, and fun (expressing his pleasure with the flyover shot with the phrase, “That’s sex!”).
The video, which Sly apparently edited, also includes a little taste of what his life’s like after the day’s work has ended.
This section of the shoot took place in Rio, at a palatial home just below the famous Jesus statue.
As Sly walks back to his hotel one night, fans line the streets screaming and taking pictures from behind barricades. (They did this every evening, apparently.)
He walks through the crowd after a long day, and he’s shaking hands, posing for pictures, etc., when one young woman breaks through and mauls him with a desperate hug.
Guess that’s just what it’s like filming overseas with one of the world’s last, great action heroes.
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I’m glad Stallone pleaded guilty to importing banned “substances” into my country, but could he keep them at home next time. We have enough bad role models here. Thank you. (Yeah, and those muscles are real!)
HGH, banned substances, or whatever… the guy still looks great for any age. And he's 63. I don't condone juicing by any means – but you can't deny the man works hard on his physique. And consistently noted as one of the nicest, brightest, and most professional guys in Hollywood.
Props to him for his career, and for his reputation. It's well earned and deserved.
I'm sorry – but that picture turns me off. It looks unreal and slightly grotesque. There's nothing wrong with him being his age – 63 years old is not a crime, it's real, honest. But this looks like a man desperately attempting to look a different age than he is. Not better or healthier, but different age – as in, ashamed to look like what he really is.
"He walks through the crowd after a long day, and he’s shaking hands, posing for pictures, etc., when one young woman breaks through and mauls him with a desperate hug."
If you substitute the word "correspondent" for "woman" in the above sentence, you could easily be describing Obama's last press conference. . .
"If you substitute the word "correspondent" for "woman" in the above sentence, you could easily be describing Obama's last press conference. . . "
…or Chris Matthews' last wet dream…
Not sure how "juicing" for an actor is worthy of "condoning" or not. The difference between a pro athlete juicing to give them a physical edge in head to head competition, and an actor, baker or telephone repairman juicing to improve their physique for personal gratification is like night and day. Context matters. Kinda like taxes and armed robbery. The result is the same, but the context makes all the difference.
As far as them being banned substances… well… most of that is all knee jerk reaction bull crap. Saying HGH is bad and should be banned is like saying all things nuclear are bad. HGH occures naturally in the body, and the core of the planet is a giant nuclear power plant that does a great deal to keep the planet capable of supporting life.
Ahh, the silliness of the people on this planet never stops amazing me.
Stallone is amazing. He gets a bad rap, but he really is a great actor (watch F.I.S.T) and an even better action star. The Expendables is going to be amazing.
Dang for an old dude he looks good.
Poor Chris, someone needs to tell him, Obama or not, he'll go blind doing that.
That's not true! I can see just fine!!!
Wait. What?
F.I.S.T. was a great movie. Not Casablanca great mind you, but definitely better than Slum Duck Millionaire.
That's pretty good, but there is a big difference between Obama and Stallone. Stallone has actually done something in his life.
He actually has more business and financial experience than Dear Leader. Granted Planet Hollywood was a bust, but it is still more than Obi Wan Obami has done!
I only need glasses.
I like Stallone OK, but I think he and Stevie Nix had the same speech coach.
Oh, wait, I thought "Rambo" diplomacy was turning off the rest of the world…I guess not. BTW – I heard the last Rambo movie was great and showed how liberal do-gooders actually endanger the innocent. I've got to catch it sometime.
His body is amazing for his age, but man, those faux tattoos are total crap. They look horrid.
When you think about it, is there any difference between using the juice and plastic surgery.
Actually there is. If you use the juice and don't work out, you get nothing. So, it only give results if you ALSO bust your butt in the gym.
Just a thought.
I'm with you. That picture creeped me out.
Plastic surgery usually doesn't shrivel your nutsack, either.
I haven't seen it. I stopped watching at Rambo 2. But I have heard that conservatives like the new one.
Not comparing the two, just observing that the sentence could have been written about Obama's press conference.
He gets a bad rap, but he really is a great actor (watch F.I.S.T)
I would also recommend Cop Land, another great film with Stallone giving a great performance (his best in my opinion).
hee. Why are terms regarding the testes always humorous??
CopLand was the movie that showed me had had something else up there.
*MissQuinn*
I am a bodybuilder and I believe he weighs 180. For one reason, his body fat in that pic isn't above a few percent. Maybe just two percent. That means he's only got 3.5 pounds of fat on/in his entire body.
I am a six-foot guy and I weight train and have large muscles, 18.5 inch arms. I have a 50 inch chest because barrel-chests run in my family. I went and got a body fat analysis at a college and my lean body mass was only 181 pounds– and I am taller and have a much bigger frame than Stallone does. My body fat is way up close to 20%. Which isn't fat, or even chunky, but add 20% to 180 and you can see just how much impact that makes. People don't realize just how many pounds of fat they are carrying. Out of shape people, like anybody who doesn't work out, you're probably carrying 30% even if you're not particularly husky and you're older than 30.
One more thing: I believe the Delcaration of Independence states that the founders felt that the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable. What do you think that the Founders would think of laws that stipulate what substances you can put in your body?
In the 1980s, there was a baseball scandal that gave Americans the vapors, they found out that athletes use steroids and it made their vaginas hurt. So, the Congress went to the AMA and asked them if they should schedule steroids like they do hard drugs. The AMA said, emphatically, no. So the Congress, Democrat at the time, consulted their fascist inner child and legislated morality to appease their stupid narrow-minded base… and some of you.
Whether or not Stallone manipulates his physiology to his own ends is none of your god-damned business whether the law says otherwise or not, and if you disagree, ask yourself, WWTJD? Or keep being a fascist.
I'm with you. I've read several interviews with Stallone, and he mostly takes testosterone, which seems to be a not bad idea for men over fifty. I'm 51 and I have a Bowflex, which I use a lot. I'm talking 90-120 minute sessions four to six times a week. Nevertheless, I cary about 15-20% body fat, one because I have an inherited slow metabolism, but second, because I love beer. LOL!
he sure makes 62 look good!
Its really sad to see how much 'roids damage a person's brain.
If by "juice" you mean steroids (I'm always behind oln the popular culture and terms) I'm trying to remember the name of the Oakland Raider who died of Brain cancer from using the stuff over the years.
Awww sugar, did I make your vagina hurt?
Yes, that picture is icky, but what's worse is that those tattoo's are not faux … they're real! On his right shoulder is an image of his wife, not sure what's on his left shoulder.
http://www.stallonezone.com/imgs/news/2009/march/...
Not sure I want to see this one, I'll wait till Expendable 5 before I check it out.
That's what easy living from a God given talent, millions of dollars, plastic surgery and a unlimited supply of HGH can do for you.
More power to him! I wish I was in his shoes.
I believe he's 180. He's only like 5'8" or something isn't he?
He's clearly more cut than me, and I'm a frickin' cage fighter.
Actually, I am all for men taking HgH or testosterone after about 50. Most need it desperately! Same goes with women. I have seen studies and plenty of pics of people who have done this and they don't have weight problems, and they look 20 yrs younger. I don't see the big deal. I was watching the news one morning and they were talking to this 70-something doctor who looked awesome. He was taking the HgH, and the newsbabe actually asked him was he worried about the fact that it was possible that taking the human growth hormones could cause him to have health problems in the future. He NATURALLY looked at her like she was farkin nuts. He was in his 70's!!!
Keep the info coming. I can't wait to see this one.
I've shot with him a couple times in the last month. He's got a documentarian in tow. Don't think he did the edit himself. Seemed like a stand-up dude, though. Probably the biggest movie star I've worked with (though I got to do a shoot with McCain and Palin on American Chopper – which was awesome!)
Lyle Alzado.
http://www.raidersonline.org/lyle-alzado.php
You know…I used to be VERY anti-steroid, but I've watched a documentary called "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" that had the opposite effect I expected on my opinion (I expected it to be reinforced), and done a little research on my own and I can honestly say they aren't as bad as most people believed. HGH especially seems to be pretty remarkable.
By the time you hit your 60's does it really matter what you're on? So what, in 20 years you might have x,y,z symptom….who cares, you may or may not even make it another 20 years. If it's improving the quality of his life now I say go for it. It's not like he's competing in pro-sports.
Using that train of thought more than 80% of the hollywood stars and especially starlets wouldn't be able to act for all the nose jobs, boob jobs, teeth whiteners and various plastic surgeries. Movies are fantasy, they aren't meant to be realistic, other wise the number of films produced each year would be miniscule.
The last Rambo was the best he ever made, it showed the consequences of peoples and countries actions or inactions. It was the perfect end to a film saga and closed all the unanswered questions the other films left and brought John Rambo's life full circle.
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