Sylvester Stallone Warns Other Actors Not to Do Own Stunts After Surgeries

Sylvester Stallone says he doesn’t advise actors to do their own stunts in the movie biz … and 7 surgeries oughta serve as a warning — you listening, Tom Cruise???

The legendary action star made the revelation in a recent episode of his Paramount reality show, “The Family Stallone,” where he said he’d undergone more than half a dozen back surgeries to deal with an injury he suffered on the set of “The Expendables” back in 2010.

Basically, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin — who’s also in the movie — was body-slamming Sly on set … and the dude was actually absorbing the blows, going take after take after take.

He says, “I did stupid stuff. I was directing ‘Expendables’ and like an idiot I’m doing take ten, take whatever, and I remember one slam and I could actually feel one bang. Steve knew. I never recovered from Expendables 1. After that film, it was never physically the same.”

Sly adds .. “I’ve warned people — don’t do your own stunts.”

SS fractured his neck and needed a metal plate inserted to stabilize things — and as he jokingly notes … his next role might be Quasimodo in a ‘Hunchback’ flick.