What it takes to make it (the Stallone way)

Imagine you’re a broke 28-year old guy, living in a small, drafty apartment in Midtown Manhattan, and you want to be an actor. But doctors screwed up something when you were born. So now you have a birth defect that makes your face look funny and talk kinda funny. Not the best start. But you REALLY want to be an actor, so you go to auditions aaaand….you get rejected. You go to the next one, and…