Sylvester Stallone used to hate Dolph Lundgren for being "too perfect, too good-looking"
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Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren are pals these days—the latter’s starred in the former’s Expendables films, in addition to reprising his role as Ivan Drago in Creed II—but they weren’t always so chummy. As Stallone recently recalled to Jimmy Fallon, it was his seething dislike of Lundgren that led him to cast the actor in the first place.
“He was like the real Terminator, and I go, ‘I hate this friggin’ guy. He’s just too perfect, too good looking,” he says. “And if I loathe him, I’m sure the world will.” He goes on to describe Lundgren as “like something that’s a thousand years in the future,” a quality that probably helped him get cast in Universal Soldier.
“I was finding giant wrestlers and football players, and then all of the sudden, the doors open, smoke comes in, there’s light, there’s the proceeding hair line and shoulders this wide,” Stallone says. “Everything is perfect. Even his calves were coming through his clothing.”
Stallone says he and Lundgren are trying to get another project, The International, off the ground, though that might be tough with the critical drubbing of his new Rambo: Last Blood, which our Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls “joyless” in his C- review. Does this mean he’ll finally finish that Edgar Allen Poe biopic? Christ, we hope so.
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Stallone kinda coming off like Dean Pelton here.
I’m not the only one who read that in Stallone’s voice, right?
My mind’s tongue immediately got fat.
I tried to, but I couldn’t understand a word I was thinking.
Yes, but with one slight variation.
Read in *a* Stallone’s voice.
I read it in William Hickey’s voice, as I do most things.
I would check out the box office before I start putting too much weight on that critical drubbing.
this may shock you – but i think that statement merely existed to link to the review!
Do you mean Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s review that Ignatiy Vishnevetsky wrote reviewing the new Rambo movie that Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s reviewed?
Might I suggest a project that makes use of Dolph’s singing, dancing, drumming and martial arts talents?
that is so great.
Perfection!
I forgot to give credit to Bricken for making me aware of this video. Doing that now.
What in the jesus. That might be the most Eastern European thing I’ve ever seen.
Make him do some chemistry there while you’re at it. If Dwayne Johnson can play an architect who can also bench press a medium sized pickup, Dolph can play a chemist who can aslo rip phone poles in half.
You think you’re joking, but Dolph Lundgren actually has a master’s degree in chemical engineering. Look it up.He really is an advanced species here to supplant us.
That’s why I picked chemistry. Though I suppose it was an unfair comparison, but only because I doubt Johnson can actually draw up plans for a skyscraper in real life (though maybe he can!)
You know, they also wanted to feature a section where he drew a molecular graph of the material in his suit to showcase his chemical engineering degree, but it was cut for time.Seriously. Lundgren has a Masters in Chemical Engineering.
That should have been Ivan Dragos entrance in Rocky IV after Apollo came in with James Brown lol
It was for the best that he didn’t. Remember, Drago was supposed to be the heel.
Oh of course it just would have been hilarious to see the machine break it down for a few minutes lol.
I think there was a movie where he was a drummer in a rock band.
Guy probably thinks he’s smart just because he has a masters in Chemical Engineering
He could’ve been a PhD (Fulbright scholarship to MIT, no less) but then met Grace Jones and moved to New York to make money modelling. What a maroon.
Poor guy, all he wanted was just to be a recognized intellectual with perfect physique. But the world just wanted to see them guns on the big screen.
He didn’t know how tough it would be it was over a month after he turned down the scholarship before he landed the role in Rocky 4 and some nights Grace would bring home 5 women and expect Dolph to have sex with all of them
To think, he gave up the pleasures of the slide rule for that.
Stallone is just jealous because Dolph Lundgren has a real nose for crime.
It looks like Sly’s face is made out of four different faces almost seamlessly stitched together.
He ain’t pretty no more!
Furious George! Smithers, this monkey will need most of your skin
I’d still bang him for the story.
Stupid, Sexy Lundgren.
Back in the day you could tell yourself that Lundgren was just some meathead and at least you had brains up over him.
Then the internet comes along to tell you he’s also a genius who can do just about everything.Now you’re just stuck there stammering, “Yeah, but does he know the names of all 151 first generation Pokemon? Huh? Huh? Well does he?” because that’s all you got.
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Being an old geek is no fun.
No, but give him a few minutes and he can probably memorize them. And their type bonuses and weaknesses.
We actually did know about Dolph Lundgren and his academic success and qualifications here in Australia long before the Internet was really a thing (I remember hearing about it in school in the 1980s) but I have no idea how we initially found out. I guess it helped that the University of Sydney was part of the story.
Wasn’t it because action film actors was part of school curriculum in Australia back in the 80s?
I’m very curious what it must be like to be Dolph Lundgren, who has a Master’s Degree in chemical engineering and speaks like 4 languages, to be on the set of “The Expendables” with the likes of Stallone, Willis, and Mickey Rourke.
He probably hung out with Jet Li and Jason Statham.
So, based on that clip, Rambo: Last Blood is basically Home Alone but less cute?
That’s weird….that’s exactly why I wanted to have sex with him!
Well, Stallone will always have that time he and his bodyguard raped that girl in the 80’s over Lundgren.
I suppose it didn’t help that Sylvester Stallone suggested to Dolph that they box for real for a bit to get some realistic footage for Rocky IV and well inside a minute, Dolph hit him so hard in the chest he put Stallone in hospital for about two weeks including around five days in ICU I think because his heart swelled up from the blunt force trauma.
He’s an odd contradiction of a person. Insanely good looking. Built like a tank. Apparently very smart. But when he speaks he sounds like a mentally challenged person whose first language isn’t english.
…He’s Swedish. English is not his first language at all and he speaks quite a few others.
To be fair, he speaks English very poorly for a Swede. Barely better than a college-educated American.
Fun fact: Dolph Lundgren drives an ice cream truck decorated with human skulls