The professional and personal rivalry between Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of the most talked about in Hollywood during the eighties and part of the nineties. At that time, the two interpreters were possibly the most popular actors and, as a result of their enmity, they tried to place themselves above the other both professionally and personally.
Although the “fierce competition”, as Stallone called it, was already public, there had never been any talk about what was the trigger for the rivalry exploded to unsuspected limits. In an interview published on the YouTube channel of Varietythe actor has admitted that everything arose in the delivery of the Golden Globes of the year 1977.
The two protagonists of this story were nominated for the ‘Best Film’ award and, in addition, the interpreter who gave life to Rocky Balboa also opted to win the ‘Best Actor’ award. However, he did not win the Golden Globe in the first category, which for Schwarzenegger must have been a source of satisfaction, since “he never stopped looking down on me.”
The thing was even more when the film in which Stallone acted won the award for ‘Best Picture’. “I managed to grab a flower pot and toss it in his direction. There were lilies and tulips everywhere. That was the starting point of a battle between us that lasted ten years. We could not bear to be in the same galaxy and today we are sure that we are the same person, “he confessed.
They improved their relationship
Over the years, Stallone and Schwarzenegger were able to bury the hatchet and forget all the episodes that had faced them for more than ten years. And, in fact, in the In the last decade they have worked together several times on films such as Lthe indestructibles y escape plan. “We have become really good friendsStallone said.
