When ranking the Rocky movies, you’ll find a lot of fans putting Rocky V lower down the list, if not right at the bottom. However, the 1990 movie was particularly special for Sylvester Stallone in one regard, as it gave him the opportunity to work with his son Sage, who played Rocky’s own son, Robert Jr. More than three decades after Rocky V’s release, Stallone got candid about how the movie was impacted by his real-life relationship with Sage, who passed away in 2012.
Although Sage Stallone appeared in a handful of projects over his life, his most well-known credit remains Rocky V, where he made his acting debut. Sylvester Stallone touched on the fifth entry in the Rocky film series during Sly, the documentary about his life that Netflix subscribers can stream now. When he was asked if his relationship with Sage factored into what happened between Rocky and Robert in the movie, and he responded:
