Star of Iconic Film Rocky Has Died
Burt Young, who received a supporting actor Oscar nomination for his turn role in Rocky has died. He was 83.
This is according to the Hollywood Reporter. Burt had this to say in an interview from 2009 for the website The Sweet Science.
“I was on the MGM lot when Sly Stallone came over and introduced himself to me, told me he wrote Rocky and I said, ‘You gotta do it. I wanted to do it right away, but I wanted to twist their arms a little bit, not look too eager.”
“I thought the script had the cleanest street prose I’d ever read. Stallone is not only a workaholic, he’s a genius who is always looking three years ahead. He has a real eyeball for what’s going on in the world.”
Sylvester Stallone posted, ‘To my Dear Friend, BURT YOUNG, you were an incredible man and artist, I and the World will miss you very much…#RIP.’
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