The first time you hear Anthony Ippolito’s voice in the trailer for “I Play Rocky,” you can’t help but gasp. The unmistakable Sylvester Stallone drawl is there, but something harder to convey than an impression is, too: the hunger of a young man Hollywood didn’t believe in yet.
Ippolito knows that feeling better than most. When he learned that Peter Farrelly was making a film about an unknown Stallone who willed his screenplay “Rocky” into existence, he also heard that bigger names were circling the part.
