Sylvester Stallone Remembers How Arnold Schwarzenegger Conned Him Into Starring In Infamous Flop

Sylvester Stallone can credit score considered one of his largest bombs to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Whereas the 2 motion heroes have turn out to be pleasant in recent times — even co-starring collectively in “Escape Plan” and the “Expendables” franchise — they as soon as had an intense rivalry.

“We couldn’t stand to be in the identical galaxy collectively for some time,” Stallone mentioned throughout a latest look on “The Jonathan Ross Present”, as reported by Leisure Weekly. “We actually, actually loathed one another.”

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At one level, Stallone defined, Schwarzenegger tricked him into starring within the 1992 comedy “Cease! Or My Mother Will Shoot”, which was each a important and box-office flop.

“He’s fairly intelligent,” Stallone continued. “He goes round city saying, ‘I can’t wait to do that movie.’ I’m going to my agent, ‘Get that factor away from him. Get folks choices on me.’ I received it and I mentioned, ‘What a chunk of s**t that is.’ He goes, ‘Ha ha ha!’ Not less than I wasn’t pregnant in a movie, Arnold. We’re even.”

Stallone elaborated in one other interview, with “Fox and Mates”.

“Schwarzenegger tricked me to try this piece of junk,” Stallone mentioned of the movie, by which he performed a cop alongside “Golden Women” star Estelle Getty as his character’s overbearing mom.

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“That’s a type of issues that you simply go, ‘Why am I on this?’ There’s a scene they are saying, ‘Would you thoughts sporting diapers?’ I’m going to kill Arnold. I’m going to search out him and observe him.”

Schwarzenegger “set it up,” Stallone defined. “He’s a prankster. He made it like, oh, he needs to do that desperately. ‘I can’t wait to do that movie,’ that means him. And I’m going, ‘Properly, I’m not going to let that occur.’ So, I snatch it. I mentioned, ‘I need this movie desperately.’ And as soon as I received it, I noticed, ‘I’m in such a turkey and it’s not even Thanksgiving — it’s not even Thanksgiving, people.’”