-That’s exactly right. Come on, they love you. Come on.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Welcome back. Welcome back.
-Hey, guys.
-I love having you back. You look good. How are you?
How are you feeling? Everything good, bud?
-Uh, my days are numbered. -That’s not true at all.
-Well, I’m feeling really good. Show’s going good.
Careers going good, I want to --
-Family’s great. -I want to ask you about this.
I want to ask you about the movie "Barbie."
-Yeah. -Yeah, it’s --
You have a connection with the Oscar nominated film?
-I -- everyone used to call me Barbie, so --
-No, no, no, no, that’s not --
No, that’s not the -- that’s not the connection.
-No, actually... -This is true.
-...the director said, "Do you want to be in the film?"
-I said, "I’d love to be in the film."
And then I was stuck on "Tulsa King,"
so I couldn’t be on.
And then they took kind of my image,
and with Ryan. -Yeah.
-And it was, like, amazing.
So that’s the story. -This is true.
Look at this.
-They put him in a fur coat.
-And, yeah, we did that. In his training scene,
there’s posters of you all over "Barbie,"
all over the walls, there’s all you.
And then -- and then the -- the Ken coat.
-The Ken coat, actually, I used to wear a Ken coat.
For real. -I mean...
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Come on, buddy! -I know.
-That’s how you -- -I know.
How do you -- Wow! That is fantastic.
-Don’t show that to PETA. -[ Laughs ]
-No, it’s faux fur. Sure, it’s faux fur.
-Yeah, it's fake -Ah, yeah.
There was a talk years ago in some, uh, article I saw,
or was it actually recent where you were talking about "Rambo."
-Yeah. -And you said if someone else
would play Rambo, who would you want it to be?
And you said Ryan Gosling.
-Yeah. -And isn’t that bizarre?
-I’ll tell you why.
I met him at a dinner,
and obviously we’re opposites.
He’s good looking, I’m not. That’s how it works.
-No. -No, seriously.
-Can you imagine me as Ken?
Like, [growls]. [ Laughter ]
That doesn’t work at all.
So, but he goes, I was fascinated by Rambo,
and I used to go to school dressed as Rambo,
and people would chase me away, and I still didn’t stop.
And I, you know, vacation as Rambo.
He just kept saying that he had a lot of affiliation with Rambo.
And I thought, you know, this is interesting.
If I ever passed a baton, I’ll pass it on to him
because he loves the character.
-Could that ever be a real thing?
Do you think he could be in the movie "Rambo?"
He could be the next Rambo. -I would say yes,
but I don’t know if anyone would say, hey,
he’s too good looking to be Rambo.
-No. -Yeah.
-I would -- I would like to be Rambo.
-Jimbo. Jimbo!
-Jimbo, yeah. -He's back.
-Jimbo. -That's Jimbo. That's right.
-Yeah, yeah, Dumbo might be better.
-And Dumbo. -Dumbo might be better for me.
-Dumbo, Jimbo. -Big news though.
The last time we were talking here,
your family was moving out of your home in Los Angeles.
Forever you were there, and you moved --
-Evicted -"Evicted."
And you moved back to the East Coast.
-I did, but it’s amazing because we moved out.
We’re looking for adventure.
You might say that’s another complicated story,
but we sold it to Adele.
Adele. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Adele, the legendary singer.
-Amazing. -But she had one --
one sticking point. -She had stipulation.
-Yeah, stipulation.
She goes, [British accent] "I would only buy this house, love,
if you leave a statue."
And you have a statue of Rocky
by the pool in the -- in the backyard, and you go,
"That’s your only..." -That’s it?
-You go, yeah, you go, of course
you can have the statue. She freaked out.
This is the statue by Adele’s pool, and it was your pool.
But this is -- I mean that.
-That's a real rainbow.
-That’s a real? It is. Come on.
Is that unreal? -That's real Rambo rainbow.
-It's a Rainbow Rambo. Rocky.
Hey, speaking of "Rocky," you lost someone
very near and dear to you last week.
-I know. That was terrible. -Carl Weathers.
-It was shocking. You know, every time I just swell up.
It’s -- He was magnificent.
I don’t --
"Rocky" was a compilation of really great actors
almost born to play those parts.
And I couldn’t fill that spot
because it required incredible athlet--
[clears throat] athleticism, brains, spirit, talent, speed.
He had it all. I mean, he had it all.
But the best thing is the first day he came in to read,
actually, it was at night and we were at wit’s end
because we couldn’t find anyone.
They had taken him off a Piper Cub going to Oakland
because he lived in Oakland.
-Yeah. -And he was at that time
still playing for Oakland Raiders
as a linebacker, so you know he’s fit.
He comes in, he goes, "Oh, God, this better be good."
And like he was in a bad mood. -Yeah, yeah.
And I’m going, "Perfect. Check that, bad mood."
I like it.
Big voice. -So far...
-He’s coming at me. -Yeah.
-Then we read and he’s going,
"Oh, my God, if you could get me a real actor,
I could perform. [ Laughter ]
That loser, that’s Rocky.
-He’s actually the actor, yeah.
-No, and then I stood up and literally took his shirt off
and I went, "Oh, my God, am I in trouble?"
-Yeah. -Because I kind of looked like
Pooh Bear at the time.
I did, and he looked like Adonis.
-Yeah. -And he banged about three shots
off my forehead, and I went,
[ Groans ] "Hired." I did.
-He said hired, yeah. -Concussion, yeah.
-Yeah, but you loved each other.
-I loved him. I couldn’t have done it without him.
He’s magnificent.
-You brought some behind the scenes footage of you
and Carl Weathers rehearsing the final fight scene in "Rocky 1,"
and I think it shows... Yeah...
-...special relationship, 1977, '76.
-Let’s take a look at this.
-Okay? -Yeah.
I should move a little closer because I want to at least
get my hand right. -Fall into the ropes.
-Right. -Okay.
-Come on, come on, come on.
Beat me, beat me! I love it, I love it!
-Oh, God.
[ Laughter ]
-I mean, come on. -We had a great time.
-Sorry, buddy. -Yeah.
-Thank you for sharing that story.
-Sure, sure. Thank you.
-Uh, between your documentary, "Sly,"
which by the way, I loved it.
I loved seeing you walk through Hell’s Kitchen and just going,
yeah, I used to live there. -Right there.
-Right there. -It was just great.
If you haven’t seen it, check it out.
You’ll -- you’ll love it.
But also, your reality show is a giant hit.
"The Family Stallone," you and your daughters
and your wife. You’re all --
I mean, did you ever think that you would do a reality show?
-No, no, no, no, no, no. Like never.
And then I go, "Oh, is there a camera?"
Sure. I'm like...
-Hi. [ Laughter ]
Yeah.
-You’re like, yeah. -Sure, I’m in.
-Yeah, exactly.
-Uh, a part of -- part of this season,
Uh, it takes place in Italy during a big family vacation.
-Right. -And you went to the Vatican.
-Yeah. -And I have to ask you
about this.
This is a picture of you shadow boxing the Pope.
And I just --
-Doing the Pope-a-dope thing.
-Doing the Pope-a-dope. No.
You can’t pope-a-dope. You can’t -- you can’t do this.
-I'm going to hell now. -You really are going to hell.
-I'm on my way. -I mean, you can’t.
-Oh my God. -What made you do this?
-It just slipped. Well, actually, he goes...
We’re sitting there and everyone’s very reverent.
It’s like, [humming] -Yeah, You just feel it.
-Yeah. My wife has 15 rosaries.
-Beads. -Yeah, I don’t know.
You going to sell this stuff.
I mean, seriously, pay for the trip.
I don’t know, but the Pope, God love him,
you know, it looks about 150.
You know, on a good day. -Yeah, on a good day.
They -- all the Popes.
-So he comes and he goes,
"I grew up watching your movies."
I’m going...
[ Laughter ]
I'm like, "What?"
[ Cheers and applause ]
-You’re like, let’s go. Come on. Let’s do it right now.
-Right here, put 'em up. You watched my movie.
You want to watch that movie? You remember this scene.
-Remember this one? Bang.
[ Laughter ]
It’s the truth. -Yeah.
-He was fantastic. He had such a great humor.
Takes a great body shot. He does.
-Yeah.
Uh, I want to show everyone a clip.
Here’s a peek at season two of "The Family Stallone."
Take a look at this.
-I have a responsibility as a father to do everything I can.
And the first thing is, we have to learn about
a little self-defense, something.
-Honestly, my dad is the most paranoid person on the planet.
-He is crazy.
-Growing up, we had to learn how to fight off a coyote.
-He always made them over prepared.
Like, what if someone comes up and gives you a piece of candy?
What are you going to do? -Oh, he's so annoying
when he’s nervous.
-I’m showing the pictures of accidents.
I used to have a cartoon slogan about what to do
if you see a gun, run and tell your parents.
-He made us practice pepper spray each other.
Oh, my God, that’s so bad.
He put a little knife in my backpack in fourth grade.
I probably shouldn’t say that.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Sylvester Stallone, everybody.
Season two of "The Family Stallone"
premieres February 21st on Paramount+.
We’ll be right back with more "Tonight Show." Stick around.