It becomes interesting to work when you have a healthy competitor. Back when Arnold Schwarzenegger created his name as a thrilling action hero, he also earned many competitors in the industry. In rare circumstances, those competitors genuinely become friends. Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone share such a rare friendship. The Netflix docuseries about the Austrian actor’s life featured Stallone remembering the days when there used to be an actual fight between him and the bodybuilding legend.

Being an action hero requires a lot of hard work and severe risk as well. Especially, if you look technologically, performing stunts in the 80s seemed a lot more dangerous than you could imagine. Therefore, when Stallone was asked who was the superior action film star, he revealed it was Schwarzenegger and not him, per MovieWeb. The docuseries, Arnold, touches upon how these two actors always tried to defeat one another.

Stallone went down the memory lane and remembered the ’80s was an interesting era. The reason was that there was not a specific ‘action guy’. Until the time, there would be a little car chase and they would have a lot of conversations. However, Stallone started to see that change when the 75-year-old came with films like The Terminator, Commando, and more. The actual competition between them was when both of them landed films at the same time. And it started the rivalry between both these amazing action heroes.

Stallone even remembered their rivalry was like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Because only one can stay on top, Stallone gave up and declared the star of Last Action Hero, which is now available on Netflix, to be the ‘superior’ man. Stallone even said Schwarzenegger had all the answers and pointed out one more thing about his fellow actor.

Not just acting but this quality of Arnold Schwarzenegger impressed also Sylvester Stallone

Despite belonging to the same genre, Stallone noticed Schwarzenegger used to play characters who would take a strike before coming back. The Austrian would select characters to play that were in control and typically had the advantage in any fight scenes.

Nevertheless, both would mark their own impression over the characters they would portray. And eventually, their rivalry turned into friendship soon. They have even collaborated on several projects, too. The foes turned into friends and also spend time together when not working on the sets.

Having a thrilling journey, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are the two big names in the entertainment industry.

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