Sylvester Stallone once wanted to “strangle” fellow movie muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger because of their ferocious rivalry.
“Did you ever have someone you wanted to strangle every day? It got to the point where we stopped talking to each other and couldn’t be in the same room,” Sly revealed of their ’80s tough-guy enmity. “We came along at the same time, we started to pioneer this action thing — although I was first — and we were so competitive.”
Sly even claims that in a devious attempt to trash his macho career, Arnie tricked him into being in flop comedy “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot” by starting a rumor that he wanted the movie himself.
Sly admitted in a conversation with journalist Sandro Monetti at Manchester Arena, “I heard Arnold wanted to do that movie and after hearing that, I said I wanted to do it. He tricked me! He’s always been clever.”
The 1992 stinker was blasted by Roger Ebert as “so dimwitted, so utterly lacking in even the smallest morsel of redeeming value, that you stare at the screen in stunned disbelief.”
To add insult to injury, at that time Arnie was basking in the success of “Terminator 2.”
The pair have since become good friends and star together in “The Expendables 3.”