Several decades ago, Jon Voight first met Donald Trump at an Oscars afterparty. The Academy Award-winning best actor can’t remember the exact year, but he thinks it was not long after the debut of Franco Zeffirelli 1979 sports classic “The Champ.” The two men bonded over the film and Voight’s iconic performance as a former boxer looking for personal redemption by returning to the ring.
“He loves that movie,” Voight says of the president. “He also loves ‘Rocky,’ and there’s a little bit of a playfulness about which one is the better film.”
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