{"id":8650,"date":"2025-11-03T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=8650"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:22:19","slug":"my-dad-still-squats-150kg-sylvester-stallones-daughter-scarlet-destroys-critics-who-say-the-79-year-old-action-star-is-too-old-and-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=8650","title":{"rendered":"“My dad still squats 150kg” \u2014 Sylvester Stallone’s Daughter SCARLET Destroys Critics Who Say The 79-YEAR-OLD Action Star Is ‘Too Old and Slow’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sylvester Stallone is 79.<\/span>
He is also still headlining action projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those two facts have become a lightning rod in film discourse, especially on social platforms, where some users continue to suggest that his physical timing on screen no longer matches the mythos he built through Rocky<\/em>, Rambo<\/em> and The Expendables<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

One trending criticism summed it up in a single jab: Stallone\u2019s fight scenes now look like \u201ca grandfather doing slow morning exercise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Scarlet Stallone\u2019s counter-message: please look at the data, not the birth certificate<\/span><\/h3>\n

His daughter, Scarlet Stallone, responded \u2014 and her rebuttal reframed the entire debate around measurable capability rather than assumptions tied to age.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her tone was sharp, but the point was clear:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMy dad still squatted 150kg at the gym last week. Some people critique from a sofa \u2014 he is still in the gym doing the work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Her defence spoke to an ongoing Stallone family theme: age is a number, work ethic is a choice.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bigger picture: Hollywood\u2019s ageing action stars are judged harder than ageing musicians or directors<\/span><\/h3>\n

Stallone is not the only long-running action figure to face these questions. Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood have each encountered their own version of \u201cshouldn\u2019t you retire now?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Film \u2014 unlike literature or music \u2014 judges bodies on screen in real time.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the person in question is someone who once represented peak 1980s strength culture, the gap between past imagery and present-tense footage becomes even more aggressively scrutinised.<\/span><\/p>\n

The actual evidence of capability<\/span><\/h3>\n

It is not just family rhetoric.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stallone has documented his training in recent years \u2014 strength work, conditioning drills, and regular gym sessions. He continues to appear in projects that require physical commitment:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Tulsa King<\/em> (2022\u2013present)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Expend4bles<\/em> (2023)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Creative choices have changed \u2014 current action choreography in Hollywood leans more on grounded movement and weight-of-impact framing rather than rapid acrobatics \u2014 but that shift is an industry trend, not only an age response.<\/span><\/p>\n

    What this debate says about us<\/span><\/h3>\n

    Critics are reacting to nostalgia as much as they are reacting to performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Scarlet Stallone\u2019s reply is a reminder that the conversation should not default to \u201cold therefore not capable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    Her point was blunt \u2014 but her message is essentially about fairness:<\/span><\/p>\n

    Judge the present-day output based on what he can<\/em> do now \u2014 not based on what people assume age looks like.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Stallone\u2019s career has always been built on the idea that perseverance is a skill.<\/span><\/p>\n

    That same principle appears to be the core of his daughter\u2019s defence \u2014 and the new data point she used was not a quote or a memory, but a number on a gym rack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sylvester Stallone is 79.He is also still headlining action projects. Those two facts have become a lightning rod in film discourse, especially on social platforms, where some users continue to suggest that his physical timing on screen no longer matches the mythos he built through Rocky, Rambo and The Expendables. One trending criticism summed it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}