Legendary actor Sylvester Stallone says Hollywood has long abandoned Middle America, but director Taylor Sheridan is reaching an audience eager for narratives centered in the heartland.
\n\n“It’s very, very important because that audience [Middle America] was ignored for centuries, it seems, since John Wayne,” Stallone said during an interview on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast.
\n\nThe Tulsa King star went on to credit Sheridan for bucking that trend, noting that the director thrives because he is delivering to a neglected audience the kind of stories it had been craving.
\n\n“He really mined a consciousness, like, ‘Oh, we forgot about that guy in the middle of America.’ They’re always writing about California and New York,” Stallone said. “But Middle America, it’s a different vibe.”
\n\n“People were starving for it. It’s like a simpler world and more, I would say, confrontational?” the Rocky star added, to which the podcast host, Marina Hyde, suggested, “A more masculine world?”
\n\n“Slightly, yeah,” Stallone replied.
\n\nEven with Sheridan’s success, Hollywood still hasn’t adapted its filmmaking to what Middle American audiences are hoping to see in theaters, the Rambo star noted.
\n\nA few years ago, Stallone and his family left California for Florida. Last year, the First…
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