President Trump rewrote the script on how Sylvester Stallone came to play “Rocky” when he told a Kennedy Center crowd on Wednesday that film executives insisted the aspiring actor play the title character in the 1976 film.

For nearly 50 years, its been known that Stallone campaigned to play Rocky Balboa as producers did everything in their power to convince him to surrender the script he wrote to an established star.

But that wasn’t the story Trump told when he named Stallone among this year’s Kennedy Center Honors recipients . 4620118

“He wouldn’t do it,” Trump said Wednesday. “And it turned out that when [executives] saw him, they said, ‘You know, you’d be actually pretty good for this role.’ He had never done this before —think — anything like it.”

Stallone’s personal underd

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