Today, at 5:20pm, Arnold Schwarzenegger hits Channel 4 screens in the Christmas classic Jingle All The Way. The 1996 movie was one of his first pictures that showed he not only had a powerful side to his acting but also some comedic talent as well. Unfortunately for him, Arnie has not always had an easy experience in Hollywood. During the 1970s he found himself butting heads with Rocky star Sylvester Stallone. And one event saw him literally dodging an attack over a dinner table.
At the time, Sly had just made his acting debut as the legendary boxer when he attended the Golden Globes award ceremony in 1977. Rocky was tipped to take home a number of awards at the ceremony, so Sylvester was excited to win a slew of awards – but it didn’t happen exactly like that. Instead, Rocky kept losing to other movies.
To add insult to injury, Arnie sat opposite him at the dinner table. And he found great delight in watching Sylvester lose. He even started poking fun at Sylvester for his losses.
Sly Stallone recalled: “I’m going: ‘Who is this big guy?’ And he’s gloating and gloating [about Rocky not winning].” Eventually, Rocky won an award. “Finally,” Sylvester said. “It’s time for Rocky!” But, before long, things turned nasty.
Rocky won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture at the ceremony. In a fit of excitement and fury, Sylvester picked up the first thing he saw and launched it straight at Arnie’s head.
“I managed to grab this giant bowl of flowers,” Sylvester remembered. “And heaved it in his direction. It had lilies and tulips… It began a ten-year battle royale. And I thought: ‘The gauntlet is down.'”
Arnie dodged this assault, but it was this aggressive action that kick-started a vicious feud between the two tough guys which lasted for decades, Sly recalled.
He even described their relationship as a “violent hatred” and noted that they “couldn’t stand to be in the same galaxy together.”
Their disdain for one another spilt onto the big screen, as well. Arnie’s film Twins had his character making fun of a Rambo poster. While Sylvester beat up an Arnie lookalike in his movie Tango & Cash. Stallone even admitted he “imagined it was Arnold” during filming.
The real insult came when they tried to steal movie roles from one another, however.
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“I managed to grab this giant bowl of flowers,” Sylvester remembered. “And heaved it in his direction. It had lilies and tulips… It began a ten-year battle royale. And I thought: ‘The gauntlet is down.'”
Arnie dodged this assault, but it was this aggressive action that kick-started a vicious feud between the two tough guys which lasted for decades, Sly recalled.
He even described their relationship as a “violent hatred” and noted that they “couldn’t stand to be in the same galaxy together.”
Their disdain for one another spilt onto the big screen, as well. Arnie’s film Twins had his character making fun of a Rambo poster. While Sylvester beat up an Arnie lookalike in his movie Tango & Cash. Stallone even admitted he “imagined it was Arnold” during filming.
The real insult came when they tried to steal movie roles from one another, however.
However, Arnie got the last laugh here. He remembered receiving the script for ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ in 1992. He recalled thinking it was a “piece of s**t” – and he wasn’t wrong. It received dreadful reviews and was a box office bomb. He told Jimmy Fallon years later: “I say to myself: ‘I’m not going to do this movie.'” But after he turned it down, the film producers went to Sylvester, who then called Arnie for his advice on the picture.
Sylvester asked Arnie: “Have they ever talked to you about doing this movie?” Arnie replied: “Yes, I was thinking about doing it. This is a really brilliant idea, this movie.”
Sylvester was not going to allow Arnie to get hired for a movie over him, so he fought hard to get the role while Arnie pulled out. He got his wish, and the film flopped at the box office – hard – making a meagre $70 million at the box office. Sylvester looked back on Arnie’s ploy to say: “I was trying to get back at Arnold, I heard he was going to do [the film] and he said: ‘Haha, tricked you!'”
Arnie recently revealed the truth about this hilarious turn of events.
Arnie confirmed: “It’s 100 percent true. In those days we did all kinds of crazy things to get ahead in our rivalry. Luckily for us and everyone else, today, we root for each other. Thank God, because we sure don’t ever need another Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.”
The pair eventually made up, however. “Now, we realise we’re the same person,” Sylvester later admitted. “We’re great friends.”
Since then, they have appeared in three films together: The Expendables 2, The Expendables 3 and Escape Plan.
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