Schwarzenegger tricked Stallone into Cease or My Mother Will Shoot

It stands as one of many funniest city legends in Hollywood casting historical past: that Arnold Schwarzenegger pretended to be concerned with Cease! Or My Mother Will Shoot so then-rival Sylvester Stallone would signal on for the sure-to-be dud. And now, Schwarzenegger is confirming that, sure, he did play a doubtlessly career-ending prank on Stallone.

“It’s one hundred pc true,” Schwarzenegger instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “In these days we did all types of loopy issues to get forward in our rivalry. Fortunately for us and everybody else, at this time, we root for one another. Thank God, as a result of we positive don’t ever want one other Cease! Or My Mother Will Shoot.”

In an in depth profile of and interview with Sylvester Stallone, the subject of the film–one of many greatest duds in Sly’s profession–was introduced up. “Cease! Or My Mother Will Shoot was purported to be like Throw Momma From the Prepare with the mother as this actually nasty piece of labor. As a substitute you rent the nicest lady in Hollywood, Estelle Getty, who you would like was your mom. That’s the top of that! Additionally, I had heard Schwarzenegger was going to do this film and I mentioned, ‘I’m going to beat him to it.’ I believe he set me up.” He positive did–and he additionally set you up on your seventh Razzie Award. In the meantime, Schwarzenegger was between the groundbreaking T2 and the criminally underrated Final Motion Hero.

The Schwarzenegger-Stallone rivalry goes again to the Seventies, when each males have been climbing their method into the Hollywood elite. With all that muscle, there was solely room for one in every of them–or so that they thought. In 1991, the 2 served as monetary backers for Planet Hollywood, placing their beef to the aspect so that they wouldn’t find yourself as waiters there. The 2 would later go on to co-star within the first three Expendables films, in addition to 2013’s Escape Plan.

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