Arnold Schwarzenegger And Sylvester Stallone Recall One-Time Feud: “Even Our DNA Hated Each Other”
deadline.comThey hated each other. Now they love each other. That’s the story Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone copped to this evening during an interview on The Graham Norton Show.
The two action stars were often sniping at each other in the press, to the point where Stallone said that “even our DNA hated each other.” That ended in the late 1990s.
Having both invested in the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, the two found themselves traveling together to various openings.
That brought them together, and they have since become fast friends, often collaborating on projects. Before that, things got intense. “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,” Schwarzenegger recalled. “It got out of control, and we tried to derail each other.” The Planet Hollywood bonding changed that, and the two embarked on a series of buddy movies, with Schwarzenegger joining Stallone’s 2013 action thriller Escape Plan and the Expendables franchise. “He is a great human being, and we are now inseparable,” Schwarzenegger said.
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