Anthony Ippolito Goes the Distance as Sylvester Stallone in ‘I Play Rocky’ Trailer

In the trailer for I Play Rocky, Anthony Ippolito plays Sylvester Stallone playing Rocky in and around, well, Rocky, the instant-classic 1976 film that put one of our greatest action stars on the map. Ippolito’s look for the film is right and the voice, described in the trailer (below) as sounding like “you’ve got rocks in your mouth,” is spot on — it does sound like Ippolito has rocks in his mouth! Stephan James is pretty pitch-perfect and photo realistic as Carl Weathers too. If Ippolito looks familiar — and not just because he looks like Stallone (or even Jeremy Allen White dressed as Stallone) — it is probably because he’s the guy who played Al Pacino in Paramount limited series The Offer. Yes, Ippolito has become Hollywood’s go-to for portraying young, Italian, breakout movie stars in