Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone once revealed one of his main reasons for doing the 1997 film 'Cop Land' was to show others he wasn't a 'meathead.'

Doing the 1997 drama Cop Land was a way to combat this perceived stereotype. Before Cop Land, Stallone starred in a series of movies that weren’t too well received. I thought that would gain respect, but at the time I wasn’t thinking so clearly and it only reinforced that I had the brain of diminishing returns. But it was a plan that backfired. Cop Land was a bit different from the usual films audiences caught Sylvester Stallone starring in. As many know, Sylvester Stallone wrote the first Rocky movie.