The star of the upcoming Sylvester Stallone biopic, I Play Rocky, is at the airport traveling from Saturday night’s Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles to Monday’s night debut of I Play Rocky in Rome. Over our phone call, you can hear travelers wrangling their kids and flight attendants calling for Zone 3 passengers to head to their gate. But the hectic airport experience is exciting for Ippolito.
After appearing in the Netflix teen drama Grand Army with Odessa A'zion (Marty Supreme), the actor moved on from roles like “Blowdried Jock” and “Boy on Subway” to land a part in Paramount+’s The Offer, which followed the making of The Godfather (Ippolito played Al Pacino in the biographical miniseries). But now the actor’s taking on Stallone, making appearances alongside today’s biggest actors at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures events—and doing it in style. For the Academy Museum Gala, he was decked out in a Giorgio Armani shawl-collar dinner jacket and trousers, and smoking scarf, all black.
Ippolito thought the addition of the scarf was an especially nice finishing touch. They have a lot of relaxed fits. It doesn't feel incongruent to what you feel like you want to express.
At one point it was supposed to be a white blazer and then I changed my mind at the last second. But I just wanted to feel comfortable even though it was an event with a lot of cool people.” “It was an incredible room. Coleman Domingo gave an incredible speech, and seeing John Carpenter was very cool.
Andrew Garfield actually approached me and said he was excited to see the film. It's kind of like you're dreaming a little bit in these moments, because I told him—and it's true of so many of the people there last night—that I've looked up to his work for so many years. You never really think you're going to be able to say that to him and then have a moment where he's actually seen some of my stuff.” “I think if something fictional happens to come up, I wouldn't shy away from it at this point.
It's been a pleasure to be able to do this, but there's a lot of responsibility and weight. The Offer was an incredible experience and I had the pleasure of meeting Pacino. Thankfully, he saw the show and had a positive response.
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