Episode 3706: Our Rocky 50th Anniversary Special With Andy Lee And Brían F. O’Byrne
From John Rambo to Rocky Balboa.
We’ve gathered a crack team for today’s Rocky 50th anniversary special, who between them know their boxing and their filmmaking. Friend of the show, Andy Lee joins us in studio and we chat to Tony and BAFTA award winner Brían F. O’Byrne who appeared alongside Clint Eastwood in another boxing great, Million Dollar Baby.
Brían tells us about the first time he met Andy in the minutes after he became middleweight champion of the world, we discuss why Rocky still holds up five decades on, and why it had to be Sylvester Stallone.
Plus there’s the wild story of how the film came to be made, the French Connection connection, and Andy fights to defend Rocky’s honour.
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