Henry Winkler talks about his longtime friendship with Sylvester Stallone
Actor Henry Winkler recounts having been friends with fellow actor Sylvester Stallone for a long time, dating back to when Stallone lived in a New York walk-up with blacked-out windows.
Video Transcript
ETHAN ALTER: You popped up, actually. I was just in Toronto at the Film Festival. And you were in, briefly, the Sylvester Stallone documentary that's going to be on Netflix next month, talking about your early friendship with him. And I thought you had told some great stories there.
Do you-- are you still in touch with him? Are you and Stallone still--
HENRY WINKLER: I saw him a month ago at a pizza place in Beverly Hills. We had a slice together. He has moved from LA. I call him all the time because I think that his new show, Tulsa King, is great. And I would debrief him on each episode.
He's a wonderful, funny, funny, articulate man who talks out of the side of his mouth. But hidden in there is not a rough cut diamond. A diamond.
ETHAN ALTER: What's your most fond memory of the young Stallone, when you think back to working with him on Lords of Flatbush? Is there one memory in particular that stands out?
HENRY WINKLER: He was really bent on attention to detail. He was a writer. And he invited me to his apartment, which was a walk-up on Lexington Avenue, with his first wife Sasha and their bullmastiff, who was bigger than the apartment. This dog. And the slobber from this dog was knee deep.
But he painted his windows black, because he didn't want to be affected by night or day when he wrote. He didn't want to go, oh, it's too late to write. He just sat down and wrote when he was called by the keyboard. I thought that was amazing. I could never paint my windows black.
