Sylvester Stallone is hard at work on an upcoming book about his rise to superstardom ... and he says Woodstock was a big moment for him.
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00:00One thing we haven't seen you do yet is a memoir.
00:06Is that something in the works?
00:08Well, you are a psychic, aren't you guys?
00:11My God, yes.
00:12I am working right now on a novel
00:16with a co-writer who's brilliant.
00:18And we're kind of like chronicling the morphing
00:25of how this all happened out of,
00:28I was least likely, I mean,
00:30I was voted most likely to end up
00:32in the electric chair in high school.
00:33I mean, I shouldn't be here kind of a thing.
00:37But when I arrived in New York,
00:41it was the day of Woodstock.
00:42And I go, what is that?
00:44And the truth is I walked around
00:47and I didn't know one person.
00:48There's 8 million people.
00:50And I was just sort of afraid.
00:53I go, there's not one person here
00:55who cares a thing about you or ever will.
00:59So this is, you better do something to survive.
01:02You better like go at it
01:04because you have zero support team.
01:06And from that point on,
01:08I realized that you have to rely very much upon yourself.
01:12And that hasn't stopped.
01:13It really, it's been my biggest fears
01:16turned out to be my biggest successes,
01:18trying to overcome them.
01:20And, but I realized that literally
01:22when I stepped out of New York and that bus station,
01:25I went, God, there isn't one person
01:27that cares what happens to me.
01:29So you better care about yourself.
01:31And that was the beginning of this pursuit.
01:34If you haven't seen Tulsa King, you should see it.
01:36And if you are a fan of Yellowstone,
01:39you will absolutely love this show.
01:41It is a Taylor Sheridan show.
01:43It's got all that drama.
01:45And you got Sly playing a mob boss
01:50who's actually been now living in Tulsa
01:52as you get from the Tulsa King.
01:55And this season, he's got some competition
01:57from a couple of other heavy hitters
01:59from the mafia who've come to town.
02:01No shade because you know I love you.
02:04But in season one, it starts with you getting out of prison.
02:09And then you get back in prison at the end of one
02:11and you get out at season two.
02:13You're kind of a lousy criminal.
02:16I am sort of institutionalized.
02:18There's something very comforting about a jail cell.
02:21No, that's why I wanted to literally,
02:25he's evolving and actually being in prison the first time,
02:29he became a jailhouse attorney.
02:32So he comes out and he literally takes this case to court
02:35and he wins and he wins over serious competition.
02:38So we see that evolution.
02:40So it's kind of comedic and kind of interesting,
02:42but that was 11 page courtroom scene.
02:45That was a long scene.
02:47I'm a lawyer.
02:48So how did that work for you?
02:50Well, the best part of it is you get to wear nice clothes
02:53because the actual lawyering part, I'm not cut out for it.
02:57I mean, it's serious focus and it's hard for me to focus.
03:01I would rather just have my client get convicted
03:04and go to lunch early.
03:05I mean, I'm not dedicated to the profession.
03:09Season one was mostly drama and it shifted.
03:14I don't remember seeing this ever.
03:17It's more of a comedy in season two.
03:20I don't remember seeing a shift like that in other shows.
03:23It was well thought out.
03:24I mean, there was some behind the scene battles
03:26about the tone, but I thought I wanted to play
03:30as close to my real personality as possible.
03:33So I tend to go from very serious Rambo
03:36to rather irreverent, as you know,
03:39because we've known each other a long time
03:41and I hadn't seen that in a gangster.
03:43Usually it's very monotone and without frills
03:48and dead eye stares and always feeling like you're
03:52in a revenge or you're in a hostile mode.
03:55I'm not.
03:56Actually, he's very in touch with his inner child,
04:00you know what I'm saying?
04:02But when the time comes to get nasty with other criminals,
04:08he goes to another level.
04:10You won't believe the ending of this season.
04:12You won't believe it.