for the role of Apollo Creed real-life middleweight boxer Roy Jones Jr. was initially offered but lacked interest and pulled out, the search continued until actor Idris Elba had come in to audition and Stallone was immediately impressed having everything that he imagined for the role, "he was the complete package" Stallone would say in interviews,
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