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Sylvester Stallone Honors Carl Weathers: ‘I Was So Fortunate to Be a Part of His Life. Apollo, Keep Punching’
"Rocky" star Sylvester Stallone offers a video tribute to Apollo Creed actor Carl Weathers, who died Thursday at the age of 76.
Speaking through a video posted to his Instagram Thursday evening, Stallone recalled his longtime partnership with Weathers, through the “Rocky” series and their decades-long friendship. Other stars who worked opposite Weathers over the years took to social media to pay tribute to the late actor, including Adam Sandler and Pedro Pascal. Born in 1948 in New Orleans, Weathers played professional football before breaking out as an actor with small roles in Arthur Marks’ blaxploitation movies “Bucktown” and “Friday Foster,” as well as TV series including “Good Times,” “Kung Fu,” “Cannon” and “Starsky and Hutch.” His career forever changed when he was cast opposite Stallone in “Rocky,” and Weathers would go on to star alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and earn a Primetime Emmy nomination for “The Mandalorian,” of which he also directed two episodes.
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