By Former action star and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger popped up on “The Graham Norton Show” this week and discussed how bad his rivalry with Sylvester Stallone got during the 1980s and 1990s.
Both actors became action icons around the same time thanks to the success of films like “Conan the Barbarian” and “The Terminator” for Arnie, and with the “Rocky” and “Rambo” films for Sly.
Stallone admitted to Forbes last year that thanks to their own very competitive nature, the pair “really disliked each other immensely” for a while there and says it wasn’t “a healthy thing at all”. Since then they’ve “become really good friends”.
Schwarzenegger agrees, telling the talk show host (via NME) that it got bad at one point:
“We were movie rivals, but we took the competitiveness to the extreme – we each had to have the best body, we had to kill more people in our films and we had to have the biggest guns. It got out of control and we tried to derail each other.
Then when we both invested in Planet Hollywood, we started flying around the world together to promote it and we became fantastic friends. He is a great human being and we are now inseparable.”
Stallone and Schwarzenegger would go on to star opposite each other in the first two “Expendables” films. Both also have their own Netflix documentaries with Schwarzenegger’s currently streaming as a three-part series whilst Stallone’s docufilm arrives on November 3rd.
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