‘Tulsa King’ Background Actor Responds To Insults Allegedly Made On Set Of Sylvester Stallone Series: “I Do Feel Like I Was Singled Out”

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EXCLUSIVE: It didn’t bother Thomas Mooneyham that he saw Sylvester Stallone glancing more than once at him, or how he was asked to leave a bar scene so he could be replaced with a younger cowboy and a “good-looking cowgirl.”  What upset the 53-year-old Tennessee man who drove four hours on April 4 to serve as an extra on the Paramount+ series Tulsa King was learning how one of the background actors was allegedly described by Stallone as a “tub of lard” and “fat guy with a cane.” He never heard Stallone or the director utter disparaging words about background actors that day, but he’s convinced some of those comments were directed at him personally after he read about them on a private Facebook page for BG actors. “I was seated at a table with another gentleman, like we were listening to the band,” recalls Mooneyham, who tells Deadline that he uses a cane because of “bone on bone” pain in his knee. “Stallone’s table with the other main characters was diagonal from ours, about 12 feet away.

I did notice that he looked at me a time or two and he talked with, I guess, the director and laughed with him and all. But I didn’t put anything together.” “Then we were moved from the scene and replaced with the younger cowboy and a good looking cowgirl,” continues Mooneyham. “Now does that bother me?

Not in the least. What bothers me is that somebody overheard him and the director. It ain’t even the part that I am fat. I wasn’t the only big one that was there.

But I do feel like I was singled out because they said ‘old tub of lard with the cane.’ I was the only one there with the cane.” Mooneyham is speaking out about his 12-hour day on the Atlanta set of the series that led to the resignation of Rose Locke Casting, a local