Sylvester Stallone leans on originality as Tulsa King Season 3 expands Dwight Manfredi
The Paramount+ drama returns with bigger stakes, a liquor-industry arc, and Stallone emphasizing a personal, original approach to the mob-boss role while guiding a growing ensemble.
Season 3 of Tulsa King arrives on Paramount+ with Sylvester Stallone’s Dwight Manfredi steering a growing criminal enterprise in Miami’s Magic City, as the hit crime dramedy pushes deeper into the liquor business and a rival distillery scheme. The new season widens the canvas with Montague Distillers and a $150 million bet on a 50-year bourbon, while Manfredi’s world collides with Jeremiah Dunmire and the Dixie mafia as they jockey for control of the brand and its profits. Stallone has described the project as a balance of action, wit and tempered romance, and says his approach is rooted in originality rather than imitation.
"Manfredi is a manifestation of my inner longing to play myself on screen [laughs]. I’m able to draw on my own experience and own natural rhythm for Dwight. I’m not trying to chase some other actor’s’ performance as a mafia guy. I’m just trying to be original," Stallone said when speaking about the season at a press junket for the show.
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