Weathers, who visited campus this week, may have gotten breakout role playing a boxer in 'Rocky,' but some SDSU fans remember him playing linebacker for Aztecs
Carl Weathers earned bit parts in such 1970s television classics as “Good Times,” “Cannon,” “The Six Million Dollar Man,” “Kung Fu,” and “Starsky & Hutch” before the role that changed his life came along.
“Picture this,“ Weathers said, “it’s 5:30 or 6 o’clock on a Friday. I get my audition, finally. They didn’t really want me, or anyone like me. They wanted a boxer who could act.” In fact, one can judge the age of a fan by the Weathers character they most relate to from his career.Another generation knows him as Chubbs Peterson, the golf instructor from the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy “Happy Gilmore.”
“Before the so-called civil rights movement, it was a little dark, to say the least, for people of my color,” said Weathers, who remembered movie audiences being segregated at the local theatres. “New Orleans holds memories both good and bad.” “I experienced a greater degree of comfort on this campus than I can remember almost any place at that time in my life.”
“That’s a Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde existence,” Weathers said. “Here’s a guy in tights doing Shakespeare and all these other plays and on the stage.” During a Q&A portion of the event, nearly three dozen people — most of them students — lined up to ask questions, things like, what other Star Wars character would he like to have played or what advice would you give to a young actor?
When the laughter subsided, another young man approached the microphone who said he is a boxer from Mexico, a super middleweight, and Apollo Creed was among his heroes.
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