‘Tulsa King’ star Michael Beach was really hoping not to get TKO’d by Sylvester Stallone’s character
nypost.comMichael Beach was hoping not to get TKO’d by Sylvester Stallone’s character Dwight, a NY Mafia capo exiled to Oklahoma, in the Paramount+ series, which premieres its second season Sunday.In Season 1, Beach’s character, the father of Dwight’s cab driver, confronts the displaced mob boss after he hires his son as his personal driver. “It’s weird, the idea of going toe to toe with Sylvester Stallone. . . .
You never know if he’s about to punch you or something, that character, cause he’s always knocking people out,” Beach, 60, told The Post.The veteran actor, who landed his breakthrough role in the 1995 film “Waiting to Exhale” opposite Vanessa Williams, had never met Stallone, which made co-starring with him “surreal.”“I’d never even been in his presence.
It’s definitely a career check because he’s Sylvester Stallone. He’s Rocky. I was a teenager when ‘Rocky’ came out,” he gushed.
On set, Stallone encouraged the cast to add comedic touches to the script — and had patience with those who were less experienced.“He’s always trying to help people find the humor . . . ‘Why don’t you just try to say this.’ And a lot of the people in his crew, some were not seasoned actors, and that didn’t bother him at all,” Beach said. “He was always just trying to help them find a way to help them develop a character.
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