{"id":266851,"date":"2026-10-04T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/sylvester-stallone-and-richard-geres-clash-on-the-lords-of-flatbush-sparked-decades-long-feud\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:00:14","slug":"sylvester-stallone-and-richard-geres-clash-on-the-lords-of-flatbush-sparked-decades-long-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/sylvester-stallone-and-richard-geres-clash-on-the-lords-of-flatbush-sparked-decades-long-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone and Richard Gere’s clash on The Lords of Flatbush sparked decades-long feud"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sylvester Stallone<\/a> says his and Richard Gere’s decades-long feud began with a tense audition for The Lords of Flatbush.<\/p>\n

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Actor Sylvester Stallone<\/p>\n

Their tensions escalated into a physical altercation, ultimately resulting in Richard, now 77, being fired from the 1974 coming-of-age film, in which Sylvester plays Stanley Rosiello, one of four members of the 1950s Brooklyn greaser gang, The Lords.<\/p>\n

In his new memoir The Steps, Sylvester, now 80, recalled “everything went pretty well initially” with Robert De Niro<\/a>, now 83, during the audition process.<\/p>\n

He added: “We were trying to outtalk each other. I enjoyed improvisation and the process of ad-libbing.”<\/p>\n

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However, tensions arose when working with Richard.<\/p>\n

\nSylvester shared: “Then the improvs with Richard Gere went bad, when Gere grabbed my T-shirt and his fingernails dug into my skin. I told him to back off, but he did it again on the second take. He couldn\u2019t have known, but Gere had begun to stir the emotional cauldron inside me.”<\/p>\n

\nThe three-time Oscar nominee asked late director Stephen Verona if he could realistically react to Richard’s actions. <\/p>\n

\nBut Sylvester was told not to after admitting he would have “knocked his teeth out”.<\/p>\n

\nHe remembered: “I turned to Stephen Verona and asked him, ‘Is it OK if I ad-lib here and react the way I would actually react if someone did that to me in real life?’ ‘What would you do?\u2019 \u2018Do? I\u2019d knock his teeth out.’ ‘Please don\u2019t.'”<\/p>\n

\nTensions between Sylvester and Richard reached boiling point when chicken grease spilled on the Rocky legend’s leg as they ate lunch in a car parked on the set of The Lords of Flatbush.<\/p>\n

\nSylvester penned: “A stream of chicken grease spilled off the foil paper onto my leg. I elbowed him across the chest, got out of the car, came around to his side, and pulled him out of the back seat. ‘Hey, man, I don\u2019t want to get physical,’ Gere said in a thin voice. ‘Too late …’ Stephen Verona put himself in front of Gere. It was clear to everyone that this wasn\u2019t working. One of us had to go.”<\/p>\n

\nAccording to Sylvester, Stephen ultimately decided to keep him and give Richard the boot, with Robert leaving The Lords of Flatbush to do another project.<\/p>\n

\nPerry King, now 78, and Henry Winkler, now 80, joined the movie as David ‘Chico’ Tyrell and Butchey Weinstein, respectively, alongside Sylvester and the late Paul Mace, who played Wimpy Murgalo.<\/p>\n

\nThe Lords of Flatbush follows the four Brooklyn teenagers growing up in the 1950s and navigating romance, friendship, and rebellion.<\/p>\n

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