From homeless to Oscar: the story behind Rocky and Sylvester Stallone

In the nineteen seventies, Sylvester Stallone was homeless in New York and worked long days filleting fish, while audition after audition fell through. His ambition to become an actor was not taken seriously, partly due to partial facial paralysis and a speech impediment resulting from a difficult birth. Frustrated by constantly being cast as a villain, he began writing scripts...