Sylvester Stallone Put His Daughters Through a 'Rocky'-Style Boot Camp

The Paramount+ series The Family Stallone gives an inside look at the personal life of award-winning actor Sylvester Stallone and his time at home with his wife and children. In the second season premiere, viewers see just how overprotective of a father the Rocky star can be at times. 

The episode was filmed last summer, just a few months after his 27-year-old daughter Sophia and 25-year-old daughter Sistine moved to New York City together. They were visiting the family home in Los Angeles when Stallone expressed his worry about his daughters living in the Big Apple without him. 

“My daughters have moved to New York, which is kind of traumatic because I spent many, many years in New York,” Stallone said. In the early 1970s, Stallone struggled to get by and was even homeless in the city at times. “Everyday robbery, physical attacking,” he recalled. “Cars were coming over curbs. People throwing acid on you.”

“You had to keep your head on a swivel, and I’ve never gotten over that,” he added. 

His daughters, meanwhile, have become used to his sometimes overbearing nature. “Honestly, my dad is the most paranoid person on the planet,” Sistine said. “He made us practice pepper spraying each other.”

During their visit back home from NYC, Stallone put them through an intense boot camp that would theoretically prepare them for any situation they find themselves in. This included combat training and various workouts reminiscent of famous Rocky moments. From climbing up a hill wearing 60-pound weights, à la Stallone’s character hiking up a snowy mountain in Rocky IV, to ending the camp by chasing a chicken as he did in Rocky II, Sophia and Sistine got quite the Rocky experience. 

The second season of The Family Stallone is available now on Paramount+.