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Frank Grillo‘s standing up for Sylvester Stallone … saying Sly by no means insulted any extras on the “Tulsa King” set — and the casting supervisor’s mendacity as a result of she did not do her job.
We caught up with Grillo — who’s starring in ‘TK’ season 2 — at LAX and he says he was on set the day Stallone allegedly launched a string of insults on the extras — he claims it by no means occurred.
Frank says he thinks casting sup., Rose Locke, bought caught not doing her job correctly … including we’re residing in a time the place anybody can declare their emotions are harm, and ya gotta cope with it.
Stallone’s a gentleman and an absolute skilled, based on Grillo … and says it is unhappy to see him compelled to reply to most of these allegations.
Grillo says he is additionally caught up with Sly in current days … and, you must watch the clip to listen to his replace on how Stallone’s processing these claims.
As we reported … Rose Locke, former casting supervisor for “Tulsa King,” took to Fb to declare Stallone known as extras names together with “tub of lard’ and “fats man with a cane” — and demanding fairly younger women be introduced in to behave round him.
Director and Govt Producer of the Paramount+ collection, Craig Zisk, advised TMZ these claims have been false … saying they wanted to shoot a scene in a hip, younger bar — and the extras did not meet the standards.
Zisk says they used the extras earlier than he texted Locke and demanded she ship headshots of future extras to him to look them over. After a brief backwards and forwards, Zisk claims Locke stop.
Grillo’s story’s lockstep with Zisk … standing by his man Sly.