This is simply not true. There are many occasions where Tim has discussed Rocky.
I think the misunderstanding comes from a period in Tim's career where all anyone wanted to talk to him about was Rocky. For God's sake, he was appearing on Broadway in Amadeus, playing the titular role, nominated for a Tony Award and interviewers wanted him to talk about Rocky. I think that Tim's frustration came, not from discussing Rocky, but from haivng Rocky be the only thing anyone ever wanted to talk to him about. I heard him respond to an interviewer once by saying that he knew the movie was important to a lot of people and it was very much loved but for him, it was a job he had done five years earlier and his career had continued to move forward and he had done other projects since then but no one wanted to talk about that.
I imagine that if the only thing people wanted to talk to me about was a job I had done incredibly early in my career, I would be pretty frustrated about it.
That being said, please provide an example of where Tim is quoted as refusing to talk about Rocky at all. Every interview I've seen with him, he has discussed Rocky but then wished to move on to discuss whatever he's doing at the moment.
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Blue_Eyes_James
8 years ago
Exactly. And Susan Sarandon was the same way, making different films, a strings of very mainstream films, and whether RHPS was a bit of a distraction or embarrassment she was right to concentrate on the future and not fall into the possibility of being just a cult actress. In time she seemed more relaxed to discuss it more.
If you weren't around in the late 70's you may not realize how precious every single moment of TV or newspaper interview was. It wasn't very smart or efficient to gab on about something like that. The avenues we have now for fandom and hearing from actors is an enormous change.
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