"Why Sylvester Stallone Tries to Bully His Daughters' Boyfriends," headlines Wall Street Journal Magazine (WSJ). The actor has indeed confided, in an interview published on Monday, June 19, on the relationship he establishes from the outset with the companions of Sophia, 26, Sistine, 24, and Scarlet, 21, born of his marriage to Jennifer Flavin. The interpreter of Rambo has thus evoked the warning he systematically gives to his future sons-in-law. "I know how these guys think," he said. I've been like them." "It's natural, but I want to let them know. I tell them, 'Okay, when you try to kiss her, it's like you're trying to kiss me at the same time.'"
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A 'dangerous planet'
The actor also stressed that he was very close to his family. "If someone does something inappropriate to them, it's like they're doing it to me," he said. It's a problem, and it's going to inflict a lot of pain." Sylvester Stallone also stressed how much he wanted to preserve his daughters. "I'm very protective of them, because I know it's a dangerous planet," he continued. I don't know how women do it, because they have to be on guard all the time. I mean, men are so big and strong." And the hero of Rocky (1976) ironically, to predators of all stripes: "Why are women so charming? Why do you think this is? What if it was simply survival instinct, you moron?"
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An interview during which Sly also evoked, not without malice, his complicity with Arnold Schwarzenegger. "We have in common this caustic sense of humor, and we carry each other non-stop (...), he revealed. He really brings out the best in people." And the septuagenarian concludes: "In the past, we could not see each other. But it pushed us to work harder. And we eventually realized that we were cut from the same fabric, even though its fabric is a kind of itchy wool. Mine is more like silk." A joke of good war, between these two monsters of action cinema.
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