One was born with partial facial paralysis. The other grew up speaking Austrian-accented German, eventually transitioning to German-accented English. If you were trying to concoct the archetypal Hollywood star in a lab, it wouldn’t be Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Yet for more than 20 years they dominated the box office, their wattage rivaled only by the klieg lights of a movie premiere. The improbable origins and unlikely rise of these two action icons are told in a couple of documentaries in Emmy contention: the feature Sly , directed by Thom Zimny, and the docuseries Arnold , directed by Lesley Chilcott. Related Stories News 'Abbott Elementary' Actor Lisa Ann Walter On Playing A "Tough Cookie" And "Telling The Truth" Her Entire Career News At 98, Dick Van Dyke Is Still Going Strong And Raring To Take A One-Man Show On The Road: "I Think It'd Be Fun" “[EP] Allen Hughes brought the Arnold project to me,” Chilcott explains.
“At first I said, ‘What don’t we already know?’ And he said, ‘I said the same thing myself.’ But then I started thinking about how weird and unusual it is that Arnold’s been successful in so many completely different areas.” That would be bodybuilding, acting, and governating — as the chief executive of California (or Cal-LEE-fornia, as he famously pronounces it) from 2003-2011.
Sylvester Stallone in Sly . Netflix For his portrait of Stallone, Zimny says, “I didn’t want to just go down a traditional road where we .
