In the 80s and 90s, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were an integral part of action cinema – Schwarzenegger was the “Terminator”, Stallone shot his way through the jungle as “Rambo” and the stars of the two Hollywood stars rose seemingly inexorably . But they also belonged to the same category: muscular action hero with cool one-liners. And so it is not surprising that the two stars were bitter competitors at the time.
Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke on a new episode of “The Graham Norton Show” (via ) about the years-long feud with Sylvester Stallone: “We were movie rivals, but we took that competition to the extreme – each of us had to have the best bodies, we had to kill more people in our movies and we had to have the biggest guns.
“It got out of hand and we tried to kill each other,” Schwarzenegger continued. He did not go into detail about what the two stars did to get out of line.
They are friends now
It is common knowledge that the two are no longer enemies. Schwarzenegger explained how the rapprochement came about: “We’re both in it [die Restaurantkette] Planet Hollywood invested and we started flying around the world together to promote it, and we became wonderful friends. He is a wonderful person and we are now inseparable.”
The appreciation that the two have developed for each other since then goes so far that… Sylvester Stallone in the recently released Netflix published documentary series “Arnold“ explained that Schwarzenegger was the most ideal action hero.
“He was superior to me. He just had all the answers. He had the body. He had the power. That was his character. I was hit constantly, while Arnold was never seriously injured. I told him, ‘Arnold, you could go out and fight a dragon and you’d come back with a Band-Aid.'”
Stallone: ’We couldn’t stand each other then’
But Stallone had also spoken in interviews about the moments when the relationship between the two looked very different. Opposite He explained in 2022 that he and Schwarzenegger really couldn’t stand each other at the time. The rivalry lasted for more than two decades.
Sylvester Stallone will soon get his own documentary about Neflix: “Cunning“ starts on November 3, 2023.