Trump Praises Sylvester Stallone As ‘Phenomenal’ At Kennedy Center Honors

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US President Donald Trump hailed Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone as ‘phenomenal’ during the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. Stallone, famed for iconic roles in Rocky and Rambo, received one of America’s top cultural awards, celebrating his decades-long contribution to cinema. Fans and peers applauded the tribute.  #Trump #SylvesterStallone #KennedyCenterHonors #HollywoodLegend #Rocky #Rambo #CinemaIcon #USNews #Entertainment  🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE  For More Updates:  English: https://newsable.asianetnews.com/  Hindi: https://hindi.asianetnews.com/  Malayalam: https://www.asianetnews.com/  Kannada: https://kannada.asianetnews.com/  Tamil: https://tamil.asianetnews.com/  Telugu: https://telugu.asianetnews.com/  Bengali: https://bangla.asianetnews.com/  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianetNewsa...  Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ann.newsable/  ➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports and more.

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00:00We look forward to honoring three-time Oscar nominee, Golden Globe Award winner, an action

00:05movie icon, and a friend of mine. He's a very unique man. He's somebody that doesn't do these

00:12things. I said, I wonder if he'll accept, because some people don't really want to be honored.

00:18They don't care. But he was very honored to be honored, I will tell you. He's a very special guy.

00:30A real talent, never been given the credit for the talent. There was nobody else could have done

00:34the roles that he did like he did. I'm not even close. And they've tried and they didn't work out

00:38too well. His name is Sylvester Stallone. So it's very few, almost, if any, people that could have

00:56taken a name and made it so incredible, like Rocky, Rambo, Creed, and others. But think of it,

01:06Rocky, Rambo. If you did one, you're good. You do two. And I'll never forget, I was a young guy,

01:12and I went to see a thing called Rambo, and it had just come out. I didn't know anything about it.

01:18But I got, I was in a movie theater, like we used to go to movie theaters a lot.

01:24And I said, this movie is phenomenal. What the heck? And that turned out to be a monster. Rocky

01:30is Rocky. I mean, the way that happened, you know, Sly had no money, nothing. And he went around and

01:38everybody wants to do a boxing movie. It's the most, you know, probably a, more than any other

01:42type of character. Boxing, boxing, always boxing. It's so great. And there's rarely been anything

01:50like this one. John Voight did a great one, as you know. Champ, great. I think that was right there

01:59too. John Voight's a phenomenal person, a phenomenal actor. But Sly came in and he had no money.

02:06He wrote a script along with thousands of other people writing scripts on a boxer. And for some

02:13reason, a studio picked up this and liked it. And Sly had, he's in an old car that he came in from

02:23Brooklyn or someplace in New York. But I think Brooklyn had barely made it to California. He

02:29was sleeping in the car. I mean, he had nothing. And he wanted control over who the

02:36actor was going to be because he said, it can't be successful if you're going to pick a movie

02:40actor with a bad build. Okay. A nice face, but a bad body. And he said, I can't have these

02:47guys because he's a tough cookie. And he knew exactly what it took. He knew what a boxer's

02:53body was. So they brought him one. And I won't tell you who it was, but it was a big name. But

03:00the chest wasn't exactly what you need. One shot and your heart would pop out. That wasn't

03:07too good. Then he did another one. He was fat, sloppy, but had a good face. Then he did another

03:14one and another one and another one. And he turned it down. He wouldn't take one million

03:20dollars. He wouldn't do it. And it turned out that when they saw him, they said, you know,

03:26you'd be actually pretty good for this role. And he had never done this before. Think anything

03:31like it. But think of it. He turned down a million dollars. He had nothing. He refused

03:37to let somebody else play. He didn't want to play it. He wasn't originally. He did it as

03:40a writer. But he ended up playing it because he couldn't find anybody else that fit the role.

03:46And who knew what would have happened? He's become a legend of the silver screen, a true legend.

03:54And he's a great guy. He's a little bit tough, a little bit different. I will tell you. He's a

03:59little tough guy. But he's a phenomenal person with a phenomenal wife and family. Incredible wife,

04:06incredible family. His films grossing more than 7.5 billion, which is either a record or very close

04:14to it. I can't imagine anybody doing more. If you add up Rambo and Rocky and these others,

04:18I can't imagine anybody doing much more. 7.5 billion worldwide over the course of six decades.

04:27And Sly is a pillar of the really American pop culture and a Hollywood superstar like few others.

04:36And one of the biggest names on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In fact, the only one that's a bigger

04:43name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they say, is a guy named Donald Trump. I'm on the Hollywood Walk

04:49of Fame too, if you can believe that one. But he's amazing. He's really amazing. And he's actually a great

04:56actor.

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