The Life of Hollywood Action Hero Sylvester Stallone

As Stallone grew older, he began finding structure in physical activity and performance. Sports, drama, and training gave him outlets for the energy that had once made school so difficult, and they helped him develop discipline in a more focused way.

Those interests would eventually merge into the kind of characters that made him famous: physical, wounded, emotional, and built around survival. Long before Rocky Balboa or John Rambo, Stallone was starting to understand how the body could tell a story.