00:00Did you know that Sylvester Stallone had to sell his dog for $50 before becoming a movie star?
00:05Hollywood?
00:05In the 1970s, Stallone was an unlucky actor, penniless and almost living on the streets.
00:10Desperate, he sold his dog Butkus to a liquor store because he couldn't feed him.
00:15But everything changed when he saw a fight between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Webner.
00:20That inspired him to write the script for Rocky in just three days.
00:23The studios offered him $125,000 for the script.
00:26But without him, as Stallone's leading man, without money, he said no.
00:30They finally accepted his condition and paid him only $35,000.
00:34He would be Rocky Balboa.
00:36With that money, the first thing he did was buy Butkus back.
00:39After pleading, he paid $15,000 to get it back.
00:43Butkus ended up appearing in Rocky.
00:44The film won the Oscar and turned Stallone into a legend.
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