Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren with American actor, director and screenwriter Sylvester Stallone on the set of his movie "Rocky IV.".
Despite the gravity of Stallone's emergency, Lundgren insisted action film actors are prone to taking hits here and there.I suppose that was one of the more interesting ones he's been a part of," Lundgren said with a chuckle.
The towering fitness enthusiast said his near-knockout of Stallone is still something the two joke about today.
Sylvester Stallone punches Dolph Lundgren in a scene from the film 'Rocky IV', 1985. .
We both got hit in the face in that picture," Lundgren said of the 1985 film.
"I had to find a superhuman being as an opponent, someone who would be overwhelming," Stallone said at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, adding that he found Lundgren to be a "perfect" Soviet rival for Balboa.Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren attend the premiere of Warner Bros
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