How many times has Ryan Coogler seen the Rocky movies? By now he’s lost count.
When he was growing up in the East Bay in California in the 1990s, his father, Ira, introduced him to the series. Rocky II was his dad’s favorite. “It wouldn’t surprise me if I’ve seen that movie 500 times,” Coogler says. Ira could quote the scene in which trainer Mickey gives his distraught protégé a late-night pep talk in a church verbatim. “That was his get down,” Coogler says.
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