Monday, Jun. 17, 1985
People
By Guy D. Garcia.
Like its hero, who implausibly shoots his way through the Vietnamese countryside, Rambo: First Blood Part II has exploded through U.S. movie theaters to become a hit of totally unexpected proportions, earning a whopping $57 million during its first two weeks. (Only Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Return of the Jedi started better.) With a muzzle velocity like that, the picture is a shot in the arm to almost everyone in it, certainly including Julia Nickson, 26, the Vietnamese agent who falls in love with Sylvester Stallone. She was a $50-an-hour model in Hawaii when Stallone cast her. Born in Singapore to an English father and Chinese mother, Nickson had done a little acting: two small parts with Tom Selleck on the TV series Magnum P.I. She declines to compare Pecthrobs Selleck and Stallone. She got no screen kisses from Magnum, and as for Rambo, "He used to grease up, so it was hard to get ahold of him."
With reporting by Barry Rehfeld/New York, with other bureaus