00:00Yeah, I was lucky enough to be able to speak with him about a month or so before we started
00:06shooting.
00:07I was nervous, you know, because I had already spent so much time doing my own research,
00:13but, you know, I was so excited to be able to speak with him.
00:16And I was just ready to listen to anything that he was willing to share with me.
00:21He was incredible, very generous, and willing to share so much of what that period of time was like for
00:27him.
00:27Before Rocky got made, before he wrote Rocky, he was in a really difficult period of time in his life.
00:34It was a very dark, lonely, lonely time for him.
00:37And so being able to hear his account of that 50 years after the fact was a real privilege.
