Before They Were Stars: Carl Weathers in “Friday Foster”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6nVceIb9MI

With Creed playing in cinemas this week, I thought it would be a good time to post footage of the first time Carl Weathers, the man who portrayed Apollo Creed, got into a fight onscreen. One of Weathers’ earliest acting roles was playing a henchman in Friday Foster, a 1975 blaxploitation film starring Pam Grier. At one point during the film, Weathers gets into a fistfight with Yaphet Kotto and winds up getting shot.

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