Sylvester Stallone is an American icon, one whose most famous films, Rocky and Rambo, captured the zeitgeist not just once but again and again. Sly, a documentary film by Thom Zimny, starts where the films end. We all know Stallone’s tough guy on screen persona, but what about Stallone the director, writer, and even painter? In this episode of Factual America, Thom joins Matthew Sherwood to discuss his film and its star. Their conversation takes them to the very heart of Sylvester Stallone’s being: his relationship with his father, a relationship that, for Thom, wasn’t just influential on Stallone’s work but redefined it.

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