#carl weathers x 80s action movies

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Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four “Rocky” films opposite Sylvester Stallone, died Thursday, his manager Matt Luber confirmed to Variety. He was 76.

Weathers also starred in 1987’s “Predator” and had a memorable role in Adam Sandler’s “Happy Gilmore.” He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his work in the “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian.”

He voiced Combat Carl in “Toy Story 4” and played a fictionalized version of himself in a recurring role on “Arrested Development.” His other credits include the TV series “Street Justice,” “Colony,” “The Shield,” “Chicago Justice” and “Brothers,” and the films “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Death Hunt” and “The Comebacks.”

After working with Sandler on the 1996 golf comedy “Happy Gilmore,” Weathers briefly reprised his role in “Little Nicky” and voiced a character in Sandler’s animated Hanukkah comedy “Eight Crazy Nights.”

Born Jan. 14, 1948, in New Orleans, Weathers played a variety of sports including boxing, football, soccer, wrestling and gymnastics. He played football in college at San Diego State University and helped the Aztecs win the 1969 Pasadena Bowl. While at SDSU, Weathers also pursued a degree in theatre arts, but in 1970 he signed with the Oakland Raiders as a free agent, and he played in eight games in the NFL as a linebacker across two seasons.

After his stint in professional football, Weathers pivoted more seriously to acting, landing small roles in Arthur Marks’ blaxploitation movies “Bucktown” and “Friday Foster,” as well as TV series including “Good Times,” “Kung Fu,” “Cannon” and “Starsky and Hutch.”

In “Predator,” Weathers starred as Colonel Al Dillon alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, who went on to become the governor of California, and Jesse Ventura, who became the Minnesota governor. In 1988, Weathers hosted “Saturday Night Live” and, many years later, he returned to the live sketch show for a spoof segment in which he announces he is running for political office on the basis that he was “the Black guy in ‘Predator.'”

When Stallone asked Weathers for permission to use footage from earlier “Rocky” films for the sixth movie in the franchise, 2006’s “Rocky Balboa,” Weathers refused and lobbied for an actual part in the film, despite his character, Apollo Creed, dying in “Rocky IV.” Stallone said no and hired a lookalike actor to shoot flashback fight sequences. The pair reconciled, and Weathers later allowed Stallone to use his likeness in the “Creed” sequel series, in which Michael B. Jordan plays Apollo Creed’s son.

In his later career, Weathers landed smaller roles in TV procedurals, and he directed episodes of them, too. He earned his first Emmy nomination in 2021 for the Disney+ series “The Mandalorian,” in which he played Greef Karga in nine episodes across three seasons. Weathers stepped into the director’s chair for Episodes 12 and 20 of the “Star Wars” spinoff.

Weathers is survived by his ex-wife, Mary Ann, and their two sons.

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Questions

@fatgirlgetsfitatlast​ and @frontalbread​ both tagged me for this question thing. Fortunately, Val had already answered Drew’s question, so I don’t have to do any fancy reorganizing.

Rules: Answer all questions, add one question of your own and tag people

1. coke or pepsi: Coke Zero

2. disney or dreamworks: I am a recent convert to the House of Mouse

3. coffee or tea: Coffee

4. books or movies: Books.

5. windows or mac: Mac

6. dc or marvel: Marvel

7. x-box or playstation: We have a PS4 and YaYa loves it

8. dragon age or mass effect: I don’t game, but I did meet Mark Meers who does a voice (an important one?) for ME last year and he was lovely.

9. night owl or early riser: Night Owl

10. cards or chess: Cards

11. chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla

12. vans or converse: Brooks. If I had to choose between the two listed, cons, but they always seem to give me a blister right behind the ball of my big toe

13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar: I’m not sure?

14. fluff or angst: Angst.

15. beach or forest: I’m from the left coast. Both.

16. dogs or cats: dogs.

17. clear skies or rain: clear, but there’s a place for rain.

18. cooking or eating out: Cooking

19. spicy food or mild food: mild. I’m a wuss.

20. halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas: Halloween

21. would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot: too cold. Add a blanket and you’re set.

22. if you could have a superpower, what would it be: If I could make teleportation a super power, that would be pretty cool.

23. animation or live action: Live action

24. paragon or renegade: if this is non-specific to a fandom, then I’m going to say I’m a little of both.

25. baths or showers: Showers

26. team cap or team ironman: Team Cap. Tony is my problematic fave, but team cap.

27. fantasy or sci-fi: Sci-Fi

28. do you have three or four favourite quotes, if so what are they:

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. (Carl Sagan)

29. youtube or netflix: Netflix

30. harry potter or percy jackson: Harry Potter

31. when do you feel accomplished: When I move.

32. star wars or star trek: Both. Currently much bigger on Star Trek.

33. paperback books or hardback books: Paperbacks

34. horror or rom-com: rom-com

35. tv shows or movies: TV Shows

36. favourite animal: narwhal. If that doesn’t count, penguin.

37. favourite genre of music: Too hard to choose. next.

38. least favourite book: The kind that crop up at book clubs all the time.

39. favourite season: Summer and Autumn

40. song that’s currently stuck in your head: 

41. what kind of pyjama’s do you wear: depends on the weather.

42. How many existential crises do you have on an average day: Not many.

43. If you can only choose one song to be played at your funeral, what would it be:  I’m not planning on having a funeral.

44. Favourite theme song to a TV show: Probably the Cheers one? Maybe the MASH one.

45. Harry Potter movies or books: I think the final 3 books could have used some editing. I think the final 4 movies probably edited too much... So you really need both.

46. Favourite traditional food from your family:  Turkey dinner

47. Favourite decade from 1900-now: 80s

48. A song that no matter the mood, it’ll make you smile? Benny and the Jets. Because I will always see YaYa running around singing along: “She’s got electric boobs, and lots of shoes!”

49. Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit? LotR. I couldn’t be bothered with the Hobbit.

50. Deadpool or Wolverine? They’re both Canadian, so either. 51: What’s your party trick? Being ridiculous.

52. Favourite place you’ve even been on vacation? All my best memories are tied up either in Barkerville or North Vancouver. So... memory-wise? Either of those. California was pretty epic. So was Europe...

I’m not adding a question because I am so out of touch that I’m not sure who’s been tagged.