Sylvester Stallone breaks silence amid Tulsa King 'toxic workplace' scandal - ... trends now
Sylvester Stallone has broken his social media silence after he was accused of creating a 'toxic' working environment on the set of his Paramount+ show, Tulsa King.
The Rocky actor, 77, was hit by allegations last week he and director Craig Zisk made cruel remarks about background actors on the show, allegedly branding them 'ugly and fat.'
Zisk has denied the claims while Stallone's representatives have not responded to a comment request from DailyMail.com.
Stallone shared a snap of himself onset in Atlanta as mafia capo Dwight 'The General' Mandfredi and revealed filming had ended on the second season.
He wrote: 'Ringing the Bell on location for TULSA KING part two…'
In Tulsa King, Stallone's character Mandfredi, has just got out of prison after serving a 25-year stretch. He is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he builds a new criminal empire with a group of unlikely characters.
Sylvester Stallone has broken his social media silence after he was accused of creating a 'toxic' working environment on the set of his Paramount+ show, Tulsa King
The Rocky actor, 77, was hit by allegations last week he and director Craig Zisk made cruel remarks about background actors on the show, allegedly branding them 'ugly and fat'
The claims against Stallone emerged in a now-deleted X post from April 8 by TV writer Julie Benson which read: 'Got this disturbing news from my Atlanta friend who’s background on Tulsa King this wk.
'Casting agent quit because she was so disgusted. My friend is feeling anxious about working now.@TheSlyStallone what do you have to say for yourself, sir? Beyond disappointed, I’m livid.'
Rose Locke, a casting director on Tulsa King has quit the series.
The post included screenshots of a Facebook post which claim Stallone was heard saying to Zisk: 'What the F*** is happening with these F****** ugly background' - referring to the extras in a scene.
The post continued: 'He and the director proceeded to call certain people terrible names and laughed at them. ‘Tub of lard,’ ‘fat guy with cane’ and was making fun of their weight and handicaps.
The post further alleged 'Sly said, "Bring in pretty young girls to be around me."'
Another background actor claimed on the CL Casting Facebook page: 'I was there, right behind Mr. Stallone. He shouted to the director to come over here. Lot’s of F bombs dropped.
'Stallone was very upset with the look of the background actors. Said they were hideous and old and fat. Next thing, people are being told to go back to holding and younger people were brought in.'
In Tulsa King, Stallone stars as mafia capo Dwight 'The General' Mandfredi, who just got out of prison after serving a 25-year stretch. He is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Facebook post said Locke has resigned from the show and that background actors 'all need to stand together' in order to 'show this production we don’t support this kind of disrespect in GA.'
Another screenshot was of an email allegedly from Locke in which she wrote she had gone to the set after being 'informed of certain things.'
'At the end of the day I resigned because it was a clear toxic environment that I was not comfortable putting myself or background artists in.'
The post included screenshots of a Facebook post which claim Stallone was heard saying to the show’s director Craig Zisk: 'What the F*** is happening with these F****** ugly background' - referring to the extras in a scene'
She apologized to the recipients of the email and added her number to gather information about anything people 'saw or heard. I will be sending the info
