Sylvester Stallone told cinemagoers in Cannes on Friday (May 24) that he never expected to make it in the film industry due to an accident at birth that caused him to slur his words – now one of his more celebrated trademarks.
The American actor, 72, rocketed to fame in 1976 with his Oscar-winning boxing movie Rocky and went on to become one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars through the Rocky and Rambo franchises.
But Stallone said when he was starting out, his speech impediment stumped filmmakers and fellow actors like Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“I didn’t think I was going to (have a career in the film),” Stallone said during the Cannes Film Festival, where he was invited to speak in a celebration of his career.
“When I would try to get jobs in commercials, the director would go: ‘What are you saying, what language is that?’ I knew it was bad when Schwarzenegger said: ‘You have an accent.'”
Stallone added: “I go: ‘I have an accent? Excuse me, what?’ It’s true. Arnold and I should open a school for speech lessons. It would be perfect.”
Why does Sylvester have a lisp?
Sylvester’s trademark is his sloppy, yet stridulating lisp. In his autobiography, That’s Not All Folks!, voice actor Mel Blanc stated that Sylvester’s voice is based on that of Daffy Duck, plus the even more slobbery lisp it gets and minus the post-production speed-up that was done with Daffy’s.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
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