Whatever you do, don’t ask Sylvester Stallone — Mr. Stallone to journalists everywhere — to read off a teleprompter.
Stallone stole the show at the Paramount+ U.K. launch on Monday, where the star of mob drama “Tulsa King,” faced with a teleprompter like his fellow actors in attendance, went dramatically off-piste and opted to “speak from the heart” for 10 minutes, delightfully throwing a wrench in an otherwise perfectly curated showcase.
“I’m not going to read that. I’m not,” boomed Stallone to cheers from the audience of around 200. “I’m going to read from the heart!”
In a rambling speech, Stallone touched on his love of franchises — “When
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