--- title: Tourists Take Selfie With Sylvester Stallone on Rocky Stairs in Phillly description: Tourists ran up Philadelphia Museum of Art steps like in Rocky and met Sylvester Stallone and took a selfie with him. canonical: https://time.com/3676341/tourists-rocky-stairs-sylvester-stallone-selfie/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-21T16:42:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:08.392Z og:title: Tourists Ran Up the 'Rocky' Steps and Randomly Found Sylvester Stallone at the Top og:description: Tourists ran up Philadelphia Museum of Art steps like in Rocky and met Sylvester Stallone and took a selfie with him. og:url: https://time.com/3676341/tourists-rocky-stairs-sylvester-stallone-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte66751f08091d861/69877af8524fc09398dec06b/rocky-sylvester-stallone-selfie.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: rocky-sylvester-stallone-selfie og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tourists Ran Up the 'Rocky' Steps and Randomly Found Sylvester Stallone at the Top twitter:description: Tourists ran up Philadelphia Museum of Art steps like in Rocky and met Sylvester Stallone and took a selfie with him. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte66751f08091d861/69877af8524fc09398dec06b/rocky-sylvester-stallone-selfie.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tourists Ran Up the _Rocky_ Steps and Randomly Found Sylvester Stallone at the Top  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 21, 2015 4:42 PM UTC  In this Jan. 17, 2015, photo provided by Peter Rowe, Rowe, right, takes a selfie with friends Jacob Kerstan, left, Andrew Wright, third from left and actor Sylvester Stallone in Philadelphia. In this Jan. 17, 2015, photo provided by Peter Rowe, Rowe, right, takes a selfie with friends Jacob Kerstan, left, Andrew Wright, third from left and actor Sylvester Stallone in Philadelphia.Peter Rowe—AP  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 21, 2015 4:42 PM UTC On Saturday, a group of tourists in Philadelphia were just doing what many tourists like to do when they visit the City of Brotherly Love: Run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art like Sylvester Stallone did when he played Rocky Balboa training to be a boxer in _Rocky_ (1976). Except unlike most tourists, these guys met _the_ Rocky at the top of the steps. College friends Peter Rowe, Jacob Kerstan and Andrew Wright took the selfie of a lifetime with Sylvester Stallone, who was in town filming _Creed_, the seventh movie in the _Rocky_ series. Stallone’s publicist confirmed the photo’s authenticity to the [Philadelphia _Inquirer_](http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20210101%5FA%5Fsurprise%5Fmeeting%5Fwith%5F%5FRocky%5F%5Fat%5Fthe%5FRocky%5FSteps.html)_._ If you need to refresh your memory of the iconic scene, watch below: _Read next:_ [_Sylvester Stallone Unveils Title of Last ‘Rambo’ Movie_](http://time.com/3653053/sylvester-stallone-rambo/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3676341/tourists-rocky-stairs-sylvester-stallone-selfie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3676341/tourists-rocky-stairs-sylvester-stallone-selfie/"},"headline":"Tourists Ran Up the Rocky Steps and Randomly Found Sylvester Stallone at the Top","datePublished":"2015-01-21T16:42:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:08.392Z","description":"\"Yo, Adrian!\"","url":"https://time.com/3676341/tourists-rocky-stairs-sylvester-stallone-selfie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte66751f08091d861/69877af8524fc09398dec06b/rocky-sylvester-stallone-selfie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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