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Roger Cormier\u00a0<\/b>and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 16 Hard-Hitting Facts About the Rocky<\/em> Movies<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 3. ADRIAN WAS ALMOST PLAYED BY SUSAN SARANDON.<\/span><\/strong> 7. CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND ELVIS PRESLEY WERE FANS OF THE FIRST MOVIE.<\/span><\/strong> \n 16. ROCKY\u2019S TURTLES CUFF AND LINK OUTLIVED A COUPLE OF THE CHARACTERS.<\/span><\/strong> Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 16 Hard-Hitting Facts About the Rocky Movies.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 3. ADRIAN WAS ALMOST PLAYED BY SUSAN SARANDON. Stallone and the producers decided that she was \u201ctoo sexy.” Cher was also considered. Bette Midler was offered the role but turned it down. Carrie Snodgress had in fact won the part, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-136","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-25Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8059,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nStallone and the producers decided that she was \u201ctoo sexy.” Cher was also considered. Bette Midler was offered the role but turned it down. Carrie Snodgress had in fact won the part, until her agent asked for too much money. Talia Shire auditioned at the last minute to save the day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nChaplin wrote to Stallone that Rocky<\/em> reminded the silent film star of a character he used to play. Stallone regretted turning down Chaplin\u2019s invitation to visit him in Switzerland after the director died a few months later. Similarly, Stallone turned down Elvis\u2019 offer to watch Rocky\u00a0<\/em>with him in Memphis months before The King passed away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nThe female red-eared sliders that appeared in 2006\u2019s Rocky Balboa<\/em> are the same turtles from the original 1976 picture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"