Arnold Schwarzenegger admits to a previous feud with another action star.
The septuagenarian former governor of California stopped by “The Graham Norton Show” on Friday, where he admitted that he and Sylvester Stallone were great “screen rivals” before becoming “fantastic friends.”
“We were film rivals, but we took the competition to the extreme,” the “Terminator” star explained on the show.
“We all had to have the best bodies, we had to kill more people in our movies and we had to have the biggest weapons,” Schwarzenegger continued.
“It got out of control and we tried to throw each other off,” he added.
“Then when we both invested in Planet Hollywood, we started flying around the world together to promote it and became fantastic friends.”
Both Stallone and Schwarzenegger rose to fame and fortune in Hollywood in the 1970s, with Schwarzenegger bursting onto the scene in 1970 with Hercules in New York and Stallone finding huge success in 1976 with the Oscar-winning film Rocky.
In addition to their Planet Hollywood partnership, the two action heroes would also eventually appear in the same films, including 2013’s Escape Plan and the Expendables series.
This year, both Schwarzenegger and Stallone have also been the subject of Netflix documentaries, with “Arnold” coming out in June and “Sly” set to premiere next month.