Sylvester Stallone was used to doing real physical stunts in most of his action films . Which was why the actor didn’t really care all that much for having his hard work replaced digitally. What Sylvester Stallone really felt about green screens vs.
stunts Stallone wasn’t too impressed with the opportunities technology like green screens created. Green screens can allow whole cities to come alive during movies without having to physically build sets. Or travel to other places to get the right look.
They also presented the opportunity to lessen the burden of physical stunts for actors. Still, Stallone preferred the grounded reality and authenticity of action stunts. He actually might’ve found that a bit easier than doing green screens.
“I don’t know how those guys do that green-screen work – I’ve done a bit and it drives me crazy. I like the heat of an explosion in my face, a hunk of tin flying past my head 30ft from where it should’ve gone! It’s hard to get the emotion without it,” Stallone once said according to Contact Music . But he admitted that the older he got , the harder stunts were to do.
Even past stunts he used to do in his physical prime ended up costing him. “It comes at a price. Arnie must have lifted a million pounds of weights in his life but it comes at a price,” he said.
“There’s only so far you can push the machine, then it’s a case of taking it to the mechanic to get this part fixed, or that part fixed. These days that happens.
