Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals how he ‘punked’ Sylvester Stallone into doing a movie that tanked at the box-office
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed a fun story about him and Sylvester Stallone when the two were rivals.
In the promo clip of ‘TMZ Presents Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons’, the 76-year-old actor shared how he "punked" Stallone into signing the 1992 flop film, ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’.
Arnold Schwarzenegger explains how he tricked Sylvester Stallone
Schwarzenegger said he knew about the movie’s bad script. However, he also found out the ‘Rocky’ star was kind of taking an interest in the Roger Spottiswoode directorial.
‘The Terminator’ actor knew if he would showed interest in the movie, Stallone would also try everything to get the film from himself.
So, Arnold informed his agent about his apparent false interest in the film. His agent also let Stallone’s agent know that Arnold was interested in doing the film.
Not only that, the former politician even spoke to the director of ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’.
As Arnold had expected, Stallone jumped for the role and ended up signing the action comedy.
'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' eventually turned out to be a disaster.
Arnold said, "The only way I could catch up with him is if he has a stumble."
Fans shower love on both Hollywood icons
A Facebook user while commenting on the story wrote, “Well Arnold also had quite a few really bad movies when he started out so all is good lol.”
Another user shared, “I thought the movie was pretty funny and cool.”
Some also reacted to Schwarzenegger and Stallone’s friendship.
A person said, “I can’t wait to watch this interview. Today’s action stars will never reach the heights these 2 hit for so many years!”
The second person posted, “Life experience and time change our perspectives! Good for them!”
“They both still came out on top 🥰 I love them both 🤍,” the third one stated.
“These 2 actors made such ICONIC movies in the 70s,80s,90s,2000,2010,2020, etc..... May they continue on with more decades of success 💯,” the fourth one added.
Sylvester Stallone gets embroiled in controversy
This came after Stallone was accused of building a "toxic environment" on the set of ‘Tulsa King’ and poking fun at extras.
In a now-deleted tweet, Julie Benson, the writer of ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’, said, “Got this disturbing news from my Atlanta friend who’s background on 'Tulsa King' this wk,” as reported by Fox News.
She added, “Casting agent quit because she was so disgusted. My friend is feeling anxious about working now. @TheSlyStallone what do you have to say for yourself, sir? Beyond disappointed, I’m livid.”
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