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Rocky star Anthony Ippolito was left ‘sick’ after gruelling ordeal playing Sylvester Stallone in new Hollywood biopic

Portraying Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone in a new film about the making of Rocky made actor Anthony Ippolito ill after he took on the physically punishing challenge

Portraying Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone in a new film about the making of Rocky made actor Anthony Ippolito ill after he took on the physically punishing challenge.

The actor, 27, plays a young Sylvester, 80, in director Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky, which tells the story of how the struggling actor fought to get his Oscar-winning boxing drama made in 1976.

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