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10 things you might not know about Rocky

Sly Stallone is one of a handful of actors in history to have been Oscar nominated on two separate occasions for playing the same character. Sly simply started running as a crew, including director John G, Avildsen, followed him and shot him in action. Burgess Meredith only got the part of hard-faced trainer Mickey because all the other applicants up for the role felt so insulted that Stallone had asked them to read for it that they rejected it.