2 l November
13 - 19, 2022
Northwest Oregon Screen Scene
Sylvester Stallone becomes
the ‘Tulsa King’ for Paramount+
BY JAY BOBBIN
Sylvester Stallone has dabbled in home-screen acting, but now,
he’s going all-in.
The action icon who made Rocky Balboa and John Rambo
household names tackles a new character tailored to his style in
“Tulsa King,” a Paramount+ drama that begins streaming Sunday,
Nov. 13. Created by Taylor Sheridan (“Yellowstone”) – also an
executive producer of the series alongside Stallone and “The
Sopranos” alum Terence Winter – the show gives the star his first
continuing weekly role as Dwight “The General” Manfredi, who
leaves a 25-year prison term expecting to be rewarded for literally
having killed for his Mob boss.
Instead, he’s exiled from New York to Tulsa, Okla., where he
builds a new “crew” of his own from some of the diverse people
he encounters. The regular cast also includes Emmy winner Dana
Delany, Martin Starr, Max Casella (“Doogie Howser, M.D.”),
Andrea Savage, Jay Will (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) and
Garrett Hedlund.
Stallone’s history with “Tulsa King” dates back to the start of his
familiarity with Sheridan. “I met Taylor a while back, actually,” the
actor-filmmaker says, “riding horses in California. I wanted him
to write the screenplay for ‘Rambo,’ because I was getting lazy.
Anyway, we moved on. Then he became very, very successful with
Sylvester Stallone stars in “Tulsa
King,” which begins streaming
Sunday on Paramount+.
‘Yellowstone,’ and one day, he just had this idea (for ‘Tulsa King’),
called me up and pitched it to me in, like, three seconds. And I
went, ‘I’m in.’ ”
Having such an underworld role has been v“kind of a fantasy”
for Stallone, he notes, “since I was rejected to be one of the
200 extras who basically stood behind a wedding cake in ‘The
Godfather.’ I’d been trying to get in gangster films, and it just never
happened. Everything comes to those who wait.
“Also, I wanted to play a different interpretation of a gangster,”
adds Stallone. “This is a fellow who’s very educated ... reads Marcus
Aurelius, reads Plato. He’s into Machiavelli. He’s a different animal
than you would normally see in a, quote, ‘gangster film.’ ”
Long after landing TV jobs on “Kojak” and “Police Story” in
the mid-1970s, Stallone made appearances on “Las Vegas” and
(as himself) “This Is Us.” As he now shoulders his own series, he
deems it “harder, faster, and longer” than making a movie.
“You really have to be quick. You have to work out of sync a
lot of times, with sequences that don’t follow the natural order of
things. But most importantly, you have to keep your energy up.
The amount of time we did ten episodes is the equivalent of doing
five ‘Rockys’ in a row, with no break in-between. I have great
respect for the crew in their diligence and endurance.”
In Focus
“Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas”
(Hallmark Movies & Mysteries — TV movie pre-
miere, Nov. 26)
Four days before Christmas, Elizabeth Athens
(Holland Roden) receives a voicemail from a num-
ber she doesn’t recognize. In the message, a man
whom she doesn’t know makes one final plea to
the love of his life for a second chance in this 2022
romance. This is the fifth installment of the popular
movie franchise based on Blake Shelton’s song
“Time for Me to Come Home.” Tyler Hynes, Steve
Bacic, Brent Stait and Karen Kruper.
“Haul Out the Holly” (Hallmark Channel —
TV movie premiere, Nov. 26)
Emily (Lacey Chabert) arrives home hoping
to visit her parents, only to discover that they are
leaving to go on a trip of their own. As she stays
at their house for the holidays, their HOA is deter-
mined to get Emily to participate in the neighbor-
hood’s many Christmas festivities, guaranteeing
a happy holiday in this 2022 holiday movie. The
cast also includes Wes Brown, Ellen Travolta,
Peter Jacobson, Melissa Peterman and Stephen
Tobolowsky.
“A Holiday Spectacular” (Hallmark Channel -
TV movie premiere, Nov. 27)
In 1958, Maggie (Ginna Claire Mason) is an
heiress from Philadelphia who puts her high-soci-
ety wedding plans on hold in order to sneak up to
New York City and make her secret dream come
true: dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spec-
tacular at Radio City Music Hall in this holiday pre-
miere. Derek Klena, Eve Plumb and Ann-Margret
also star alongside the Radio City Rockettes.
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