Several Hollywood stars owe their success to action cinema but the price they pay is often quite high, as he confirmed Sylvester Stallone. The protagonist of Rocky and Rambo confessed that his commitment to the action sequences led to several physical problems that destroyed him.
A thesis also confirmed by Tom Selleck. The latter gained iconic status in the 1980s thanks to his impeccable contribution to cinema and TV in various characters that perfectly embodied the profile of the protagonist of the action genre.
Selleck is known for his role as the charismatic private investigator Thomas Magnum in the Magnum PI series, without forgetting films such as Runaway, An Innocent Man and Quigley Rifle. Interviewed by the Telegraph, Selleck spoke about the impact his has had on his health I work in action films:“If you make action movies all your life, you get a lot of pain and discomfort”.
He himself had to resort to some ‘restoration’:“This knee is new, this hip too… But it’s a miracle that we can do something about it”. It’s not the first time Selleck has talked about his physical ailments due to action films. In 2014 he told GQ:“When you do stunts in movies, and I do a lot of them, you take a risk […]”.
Due to an injury in Rocky 2, Sylvester Stallone thought his career was over. Recently, he quoted an episode in The Expendables, during a fight scene with Steve Austin:“I was directing the movie and, like an idiot, I took yet another take. I remember a crash and I could actually hear a bang”.
A few months ago, Tom Selleck remembered Matthew Perry, with whom he worked on several episodes of Friends.
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