Stars of the silver screen in the eighties, Sylvester Stallone admitted that he could not stand Arnold Schwarzenegger, due to the type of action films in which everyone starred and with which they competed, and said that the displeasure they had even outside the film sets he resumed.

“Actually, we deeply loathed each other because we were, even if it may seem a little vain, pioneers in a genre typology that has not been repeated since then,” admitted Sylvester Stallone during an interview with the magazine Forbes to promote its Paramount+ series Tula Kingpremiered on Sunday 13 November.

However, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stallone are no longer action movie stars dominated the box office during the 1980s with its brand of hyper-masculine films and led by two powerful leads; a feat that some studios but no actors have been able to fully recreate since.

What could unite them separated them

You’d think that experience would unite the titans of the industry, each confident in their ability to appeal to an increasingly interested audience for such entertainment. But that wasn’t the case: Sylvester Stallone acknowledged that in those years of so much testosterone he didn’t have them as friends.

“The competition between us was permanent; He’s very competitive and so am I and I think that helped promote the movies, but off screen we were still competing and it wasn’t healthy at all, but we became really good friends,” Stallone added.

Incidentally, Stallone was wistful about his rivalry with Schwarzenegger and their eventual ability to mend ties by collaborating on films like the Expendables Y escape plan.

on TV

Those days of Stallone and Schwarzenegger competing to win the box office seem, at least for now, to be over as both actors have turned their attention to television.

In fact, Stallone has teamed up with Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan in Tula Kingwhile Schwarzenegger will direct the Netflix adventure series, utap.

According to critics, Stallone’s television debut got off to a good start.

In the review of indiewireBen Travers, noted: “Tula King, Sheridan’s latest series for Paramount, feels like a breath of fresh air. Starring Sylvester Stallone as an aging gangster exiled to Oklahoma after a 25-year sentence, the first two episodes feature their fair share of punches, attitudes, and family problems. What about a varied menu of situations”.

And he continues: “But so far Tula King has more in common with movies like Space cowboys Y The old man and the gun what with Hitman Y River of the Windstories of old reformed criminals trying to do good before it’s all over, but they do it with a wink and a smile.”

To cap it all: “In the hands of showrunner and co-writer Terence Winter (Waterfront empire), there’s also an effortless quality to the proceedings that befits the star’s dual skill set, like being intimidating and pushy one minute, and cute teddy bear prankster the next.

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