The rivalry between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone in the Hollywood of the eighties and nineties is legendary. Both artists are, even today, two of the highest standards of mainstream and blockbuster action, starring in successful sagas such as ‘Terminator‘, ‘Rocky‘ either ‘Rambo‘. After their peak in commercial theaters, the two actors resolved their differences and ended up becoming bosom friends. Friendship that still lasts and that has led them to participate together in films such as ‘The mercenaries‘ either ‘escape plan‘. At a recent event, Schwarzenegger confessed that he always kept track of Sly when they got along badly and watched his movies. without missing any. The salaries that Stallone pocketed for his work came to obsess Schwarzenegger and, in part, motivated him to develop new successful films.
Schwarzenegger didn’t understand how Stallone could make so much money from his movies; ‘my salary was like 10% of his’
Within the framework of the special event ‘TMZ Presents: Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons‘, Schwarzenegger made it clear that Stallone got the upper hand during part of their Hollywood showdown: “It just developed from then on. Now I had to chase him. Then he made Rocky II, and then Rocky III, and then he made all these movies, and It kept going up and up. And I earned… my salary was like 10% of his. When he receives 2 million dollars, I receive 200,000 dollars. He earned five million dollars and I earned 500,000 dollars,” commented the veteran actor, a regular in James Cameron’s filmography.
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“When he gets $2 million, I get $200,000.”
“So I had to chase him. I said: ‘This has to end’. And every time I read: ‘Sly just got a new record: $10 million.’ No actor ever received 10 million, not even Marlon Brando received 10 million. And I said to myself: ‘Son of a bitch.'” The Schwarzenegger-Stallone relationship is one of the most famous in Hollywood and always will be.
