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Anthony Ippolito as Sylvester Stallone/Rocky in "I Play Rocky." Courtesy of Amazon/MGM Anthony Ippolito had to do more than nail Sylvester Stallone’s signature voice to play him in “I Play Rocky.”
He also had to transform his skinny physique to one with bulging muscles.
“It had its moments for sure. I was being tested,” Ippolito told me Saturday at the AFI Fest “I Play Rocky” screening in Los Angeles. “It’s like a consistency thing, though. I had a great deal of time, so just an entire lifestyle shift and it was just one of the priorities of every day for a pretty long period.”
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