Tulsa King

From the Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa to the war-torn soldier Rambo, they all tend to lean toward the tough guy formula. But Sly surprisingly opted to go a ...

"The fact that I'm playing a gangster with the gray hair who's still aggressive, and still an Alpha, is pretty exciting to me." "The idea is: They come up with an idea, a concept, but if you're a writer, you know how to tailor things to your strengths and deflect your weaknesses." The actor added, "It's like having a pet tiger, 'Oh, he wouldn't hurt a fly,' yeah, he would, he's a tiger; he can purr and all that, but beware." "So I thought, 'Huh, the one thing I've never seen is a gangster who's a little off-kilter, has a sense of humor, is a prankster and very loose' — not intimidating, but you know he's a gangster." Stallone definitely wanted his mob boss performance to stand out, but it wasn't a bull or fish that he had in mind when developing "The General." Ben Travers from [IndieWire](https://www.indiewire.com/2022/11/tulsa-king-review-sylvester-stallone-show-1234780852/) wrote, "Stallone playing a fish out of water who's also a bull in a china shop proves perpetually entertaining."