Sylvester Stallone raged at child after having his lines corrected

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Sylvester Stallone is a proud actor, and has earned his stripes over the years – but he isn’t perfect.

Despite having been acting professionally for 20 years at that point, when Stallone began working on Rambo III in 1988, one of the scenes got the better of him.

According to Nick de Semlyen’s book, The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage, director Peter MacDonald fought hard to keep Rambo’s sidekick, Hamid (played by nine-year-old Doudi Shoua) alive throughout the movie. (Via Variety)

But when the kid got on the wrong side of Stallone – who is affectionately known as Sly – the actor wanted him gone.

“This kid was annoying; he could drive you crazy,” MacDonald said. “But he was full of life and energy.”

MacDonald remembered one “tracking shot” with Stallone who had “quite a bit of dialogue”.

“Sly gets his lines wrong,” he recalled. “The kid picked him up and told him the right line. Now I’m looking at Sly and thinking: ‘This is not going to work too well.'”

Stallone and his entourage apparently “skulked off” after the embarrassing line flub, but before long a producer approached MacDonald.

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The producer said: “Sly’s had a great idea: The kid’s got to die.”

MacDonald jokingly replied: “In the film or in reality?”

The director had to fight Shoua’s corner and ensure he didn’t get fired. He later told the youngster not to get involved again, or his shooting days would be cut short.

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MacDonald added: “I thought it was quite funny. A nine-year-old going to war with the world superstar.”

It’s no wonder Stallone was given a lot of clout in the movie, considering its $63 million budget made it the highest-grossing picture ever made at the time.

This budget was made even more impressive by one of Stallone’s payment requests: He wanted a Gulfstream jet, costing approximately $12 million, as a part of his salary. He received it.

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