Tulsa King, Season 3 - Flicks (2025)

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Sylvester Stallone talks with Patrick Stoner about playing his mob boss like a Cheshire Cat rather than like a pit bull.
Flicks is a program devoted to exploring the latest creations from Hollywood. Each week, WHYY film critic Patrick Stoner provides up-to-the-minute coverage of top films, stars and moviemakers.
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Taste this.
He's selling his business. Booze
Moonshine. This is history. Most likely
started by the Italians.
>> Wasn't that English, Scottish, Irish?
The Italians brought bread sticks.
>> Sylvester Stallone has been a star since
Rocky came out in 1976.
In fact, the statue of him as Rocky at
the Philadelphia Art Museum is still a
tourist attraction. Before I got into
this season three of Tulsa King, I
wanted to complain to him a little bit
about that.
>> I am based in Philadelphia. Naturally,
when people come, I want to show them
the Liberty Bell and other historical
places. No, I'm always a tour guide to
take them to your blasted statue that
you have.
>> How did that happen?
>> How did that happen?
>> Oh my god, that's amazing.
>> Let's talk about this series. It is It
is so successful. You're an executive
producer as well. is so successful that
there's going to be a spin-off with your
good buddy Samuel. Jackson, but talk
first. He's uh first going to show up in
the new season of Tulsa King.
>> I'm sitting in a booth and all of a
sudden this stranger from 25 years ago
walks in. But when Sam walks in, there's
a reason he is so successful. It's just
sparks fly. There's a confidence in his
languid, body movement. It's just a
beautiful contrast to me. And he has
this thick New Orleans accent. It's just
it's it's crepe.
>> Wait a minute. He has a thick New
Orleans accent when he sat down with
you. That's manipulative.
>> I'm telling you, it's it's thick. You
can cut it with a knife.
>> To what extent do you now feel that you
know your character inside and out?
>> In the beginning, I was flying, you
know, really with with no guidance, no
radar. But when I saw it play back, I oh
this is kind of interesting because this
character is not competing with Dairo or
Sopranos. Each one of these guys were
very distinctive in the way they
approached gangsterism. And I thought,
ah, let me just be like a guy that's a
fish out of water here. So I don't quite
have it together. My tendency when I
Robert Patrick, he comes after me to
threat me in my own bar and I'm coming
at him viciously like brilliant. Sure.
>> And I went, you know, that's not as
effective as me having this chest grin
like really that kind of thing. So it
made him even more infuriated rather
than trying to go like two pit bulls.
You have one pit and one chess cat,
>> right? Because there's an unknown danger
behind that.
>> Exactly. Exactly. That's exactly it.
>> Always good to see you, Sly. I
appreciate it very much. So now
>> flicks with Patrick Stoner explores the
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