What was the origin of the bad relationship between Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger pose together on their social networks.@Schwarzenegger and @Officialslystallone.

Who would have thought that Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are not lifelong friends when they support each other in their projects or in charitable acts. Turns out it hasn’t always been this way and for decades, at the height of their careers, they were taken “to kill”. At Uppers we ask ourselves what was the origin of the bad relationship between Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger And when they made peace, because as they show on their social networks for some time now, they are united by a great friendship.

Moreover, in a recent interview in the American magazine The Hollywood Reporter with Sylvester Stallone, the actor and film producer stated: “We are the last two tyrannosaurs. We are the last two carnivores and there is not much meat left lying around. So let’s just enjoy each other.” Stallone, a native of New York and who last July he turned 76, stated that “Arnold is very intelligent and loves to talk about how he got to where he is… It’s good to talk to a man like him.” They also like to joke together and “laugh at the old days”.

On another occasion, on the occasion of the premiere of Escape Planin which the two actors shared the limelight, Stallone assured the newspaper The New York Post that he was “sure that this great rivalry we had is what has helped us to be so successful. Competition always makes you get the best of you”.

Stallone and Schwarzenegger hated each other

Both they started to hate each other to the point of not being able to see from the moment they shared a table during the 1977 Golden Globe Awards. Sylvester Stallone was nominated in the Best Actor category for his performance in rocky. For his part, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a year younger with 75 years and born in Austria, he was competing to win the Golden Globe for Best New Actor after the premiere of the film stay hungry (the great bodyguard).

In those awards, the truth is that they were not rivals because they competed in different categories, also none was recognized for being a great actor but for his incredible physique, for his strength and “above all for his desire to succeed.” So, Schwaezenegger won and began his private war with rumours, accusations or jokes to leave the opponent on the ground.

By 1985 Arnold had become an icon after starring in the two films of Conan the barbarian. In an interview Said Stallone used stunt doubles for his scenes and that he did not. A few years later he assured that the protagonist of rocky It did not generate “good vibrations”.

Schwaezenegger got his share; in the film rocky IV 1985, actor Dolph Lundgren played a blonde-haired, Russian villain with a harsh English accent and an almost robotic way of speaking. Many viewers bet that it was a parody about the Arnold modes in Terminator. After, in Tango and Cash (1989), in a scene that takes place in a prison, Stallone tells the craziest of all prisoners the phrase: “I loved you in Conan the barbarian!”.

Both also recognized that the Austrian tricked the American into starring in one of the worst films in the history of cinema, High! or my mother shoots which premiered in 1992. At first they offered the role to Schwaezenegger and after reading the script, which he thought was very bad, he led the press to believe that he was interested in the film. Then he asked to be paid an exaggerated amount of money so that his proposal would be rejected. Stallone said that he “took the bait” and wanted to star in the film at all costs. It was an absolute failure which Arnold was glad of.

So They continued to show their rivalry to the general publiclike in last great hero in 1993, of Schwarzenegger, where you could clearly see a poster of Terminator with Stallone’s face. That same year, in Demolition Manduring a conversation between Sandra Bullock and Stallone, he pretends that it is that moment when he finds out that a president of the United States has the last name Schwarzenegger.

Then came the friendship between Stallone and Schwarzenegger

Over time, everything smoothed out, they say that the maturity of both made them understand that their rivalry made no sense. in the late nineties they became partners with Bruce Willis and Demi Moore and opened the Planet Hollywood restaurant chainalthough some time later Schwarzenegger left the business.

Since then they became great friends and shared a screen in Escape Plan and in the first two tapes of the saga of The Expendables (premiered in Spain as The mercenaries in 2010). Last October, the fourth and final installment with Stallone as the protagonist was finished recording with its premiere scheduled for September 2023 in the United States.

As for Arnold, one of his latest works in the cinema that have most stood out was the last tape Terminator: Dark Fate in 2019. Although in February of this year he shared a poster on his social networks in which he appears characterized as Zeus, the god of Olympus, but he has not yet confirmed what type of project it is.