Peter Farrelly Reveals Sylvester Stallone Has Seen ‘I Play Rocky’: “His Wife Cried the Whole Time”

So Sylvester Stallone has finally seen “I Play Rocky.”That's news, because up until now we had heard absolutely nothing about how Sly felt about Peter Farrelly's movie on the making of the 1976 classic.

Farrelly tells BILLYPENN Stallone didn't watch it in a theater, which is what Farrelly wanted. He watched it at home with his wife, Jennifer Flavin. By the way, Flavin, whom he's been married to since 1997, is not the wife depicted in the film.

When we were showing the movie to Sylvester Stallone, he'd been remarried for over 30 years. That concerned me, that we were going to show him a movie in a theater, but he said he wanted to watch it at home with his wife. It's not the same wife that's in the movie

Farrelly clearly wasn't thrilled about it, and I get This is the type of film that absolutely plays best with a crowd.

I didn't like this because I knew if you saw it in a crowd, you'd feel the energy. But sitting home alone, who knows what could happen?

Regardless, Stallone called Farrelly right he screened the film and told him he loved it. And Flavin? She apparently wept through the entire thing.

He said he loved it, and he said that his wife cried the whole time

I do wonder if Sly goes public with this. A Stallone stamp of approval, on the record, would do a lot more for “I Play Rocky” than secondhand praise relayed by its director.

If you remember, Sly wasn't exactly on board at first. His reaction was basically "I'm not dead yet." He also aired frustration over feeling sidelined by Farrelly. What changed his mind? Seeing Anthony Ippolito in the lead role. And to Farrelly's credit, he said from the start that he wouldn't make the movie unless Stallone signed off, and Stallone read the script and told him to go ahead.

The result is that “I Play Rocky” has played extremely well with festival audiences and could even land a Best Picture nomination. Amazon MGM has set a limited theatrical release for Friday, and the film will expand wider on November 20.