Arnold Schwarzenegger opens up about his rivalry with Sylvester Stallone

Veteran actor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently opened up about his professional rivalry with actor Sylvester Stallone and said that it got “out of control" during the 1980s and 1990s. It is to be noted that both the actors are known for their action films with Arnold starring in The Terminator and Sylvester in Rambo.

“We were movie rivals, but we took the competitiveness to the extreme ' we each had to have the best body, we had to kill more people in our films and we had to have the biggest guns. It got out of control and we tried to derail each other," Schwarzenegger said on The Graham Norton Show.

“Then when we both invested in Planet Hollywood, we started flying around the world together to promote it and we became fantastic friends. He is a great human being and we are now inseparable," he added.

It is to be noted that both of them share screen space in the first two Expendables films and the 2013 action film Escape Plan. In 2021, Sylvester also said that they "really disliked each other immensely" for over two decades as their films clashed at the box office.

“So the competition, because it's his nature, he is very competitive and so am I' and I just thought it actually helped, but off-screen we were still competitive and that was not a healthy thing at all, but we've become really good friends," Stallone told Forbes.