1982: SYLVESTER STALLONE and HENRY COOPER | Saturday Live | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive

Sylvester Stallone chats to Gloria Hunniford about his new movie, Rocky 3 - which he claims is the most personal film he has made to date.

Stallone shot to overnight international fame following the success of Rocky - which he both wrote and starred in - the story of an underdog boxer who gets an unlikely shot at the world title. Since then, his life - and the life of his character Rocky Balboa - has changed dramatically. How is he coping with his new found fame and fortune? What lessons has he learned from Rocky 1 to Rocky 3?

Sylvester Stallone is joined by former British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion Henry Cooper, who discusses memorably knocking down a young Muhammed Ali in 1963, and addresses recent calls by the British Medical Association for boxing to be banned.


Clip taken from Saturday Live, originally broadcast on BBC One, Saturday 17 July, 1982.





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