Jimmy Kimmel Live: Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals how he tricked 'rival' Sylvester Stallone into making his second worst movie
Arnold Schwarzenegger and his fellow actor Sylvester Stallone have had a competitive relationship dating back to the 1980s and it is safe to say that the two considered each other 'rivals. While things have changed now, Schwarzenegger reflected on their relationship while appearing on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'.
Schwarzenegger admitted that he and Stallone had been at each other's throats to ensure that they were doing better than the other. "In the 80s [he was] just a rival and it was all about who is making bigger movies, who has more box office success, who had bigger knives, who had more guns, and who could kill the bad guys more creatively," the actor joked.
The two often had a tug-of-war situation when it came to movies. Schwarzenegger recalled being approached for a movie which he thought was a 'piece of shit'. He revealed that he read the script and after a couple of pages decided to pass on it.
To his surprise, a few days later, Stallone called him askinh him if he had been approached for the same movie. Schwarzenegger, sensing an opportunity to get one over his rival, said that not only had he been approached, but he was seriously considering doing it.
Schwarzenegger knew how competitive Stallone was and knew that he would see it as a chance to pull a film away from his rival. As Arnie anticipated, Stallone did not take a second to think about the movie and decided to say yes to it. The movie was the absolute turkey 'Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot'. As Arnie predicted, it bombed at the box office, and Stallone spent the next few years trying to live it down. Since then, however, Schwarzenegger and Stallone have moved past their 'creative' differences and have worked together on a number of successful projects.
If you read the headline, you're probably wondering what Stallone's worst movie is, well can it get any worse than 1984's Rhinestone? We thought so too..