In a March 1982 interview on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman (1982), unearthed by Heat Vision, the late Superman actor said he was disappointed with his experience with Brando, saying the Oscar-winning actor who played his onscreen father, Jor-El, was only in it for the money - and it showed. He accused the acting legend of "phoning in" his Superman performance of not really trying or caring at all about the performance. In an interview with David Letterman, Christopher Reeve criticized Marlon Brando for his performance in Superman. All of the scenes, used in the extended version or not, can be found in the four-disc DVD special edition of the film. Although not used in the theatrical cut, most of these scenes were worked into the extended DVD versions. Among them are: extended dialogue scenes between Jor-El and his fellow Kryptonians, a scene of baby Kal-El's space pod flying past the Phantom Zone-trapped villains, a scene of a child Lois Lane seeing Clark Kent running extremely fast from a train window, a scene in which Ma Kent tries to wake up a still-sleeping Clark, additional dialogue between Superman and Jor-El in the Fortress of Solitude, a scene in which Superman is pelted with bullets, fire, and ice as he approaches Luthor's hideout, a scene in which Otis has to feed Luthor's "babies" (some type of animal or monster we never see on-screen), and a scene where Luthor attempts to feed Miss Teschmacher to those same "babies" after she sets Superman free. Several scenes were shot for the movie, but were not used in the theatrical version. Ironically, in his review for the Stallone film Rocky (1976), Roger Ebert called Stallone "the next Marlon Brando." Superman (and continues to) as well as having a great love for the comics mythology. Unlike Brando, Stallone grew up emulating and idolizing Clark Kent a.k.a. Stallone later explained that he felt that it was hypocritical that Brando, who stated on numerous occasions that he took the role of Jor-El simply as a paycheck and nothing more, vetoed him for the role of Superman.
This mimicry might have been one of the the reasons Brando reportedly had such antipathy for both actors. This surprised many, as the early Stallone (as had the early Burt Reynolds) had clearly modeled himself after Brando, particularly Brando's characterization of Terry Malloy in У порту (1954) in his own role as Stanley Rosiello in The Lords of Flatbush (1974), a man named "Stanley" (a la Stanley Kowalski in Трамвай «Бажання» (1951) and who had a coop of pigeons on his tenement roof (like Terry Malloy). (Responding to that rumor, Brando told Playboy Magazine interviewer Lawrence Gobel, "Francis ( Francis Ford Coppola) would never have cast Burt Reynolds.") Stallone subsequently went on Merv Griffin's talk show and denounced Brando, saying he had no respect for the superstar as an actor or as a man. Stallone found out that Marlon Brando, who had casting approval, turned him down for the role, just as he had allegedly vetoed Burt Reynolds' casting as Sonny in Хрещений батько (1972).
Superman, but he was ultimately turned down (he was deemed "too Italian"). After the success of Роккі (1976), Sylvester Stallone lobbied hard to play Clark Kent a.k.a.
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