Sylvester Stallone Says He’s Too Ugly to Play Ken but Ryan Gosling Should Be the Next Rambo: ‘If I Ever Pass the Baton, I’ll Pass It on to Him’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Sylvester Stallone appeared on a recent episode of “The Tonight Show” and gave Ryan Gosling his blessing to star as the next Rambo in a potential revival of Stallone’s iconic action franchise.
Stallone played the eponymous United States Army Special Forces veteran in five movies. The first “Rambo” opened in 1982. Stallone presumably said goodbye to the franchise in 2019’s “Rambo: Last Blood.” “I met [Ryan Gosling] at a dinner,” Stallone said when asked why Gosling is his top pick to play a new iteration of Rambo. “Obviously we are opposites.
He’s good looking. I’m not. Seriously! Could you imagine me as Ken? It doesn’t work at all.” “[Ryan] 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.
I’d vacation as Rambo.’ He just kept saying that he had a lot of affiliation with Rambo,” Stallone continued. “And I thought, you know, this is interesting.
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