Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, the ‘feud’ between the two legends becomes a TV special: when and where to see it

From rivals to friends to co-stars… to protagonists of a TV show. In a nutshell, we could summarize the history of the turbulent relationship between Arnold Schwarzenegger And Sylvester Stallone. The two icons of Hollywood, once again, are about to share the screen. This time, however, quite exceptionally, they will not act side by side in a film. The stars, in fact, will openly discuss theirs rivalry – more or less fictionalized – in the special Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons. The documentary, produced by TMZwill air on April 23 on Fox and will be available the following day on Hulu.

Sly and Schwarzy, face to face, will retrace the ‘feud’ that, starting from The eighties, has inflamed not only the world of cinema, but also their private lives. “TMZ Meets Exclusively Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone – announced Fox – as they discuss for the first time how their once fierce rivalry has led two Hollywood icons to be forever friends and brothers in arms.” Arnold & Sly lasts about an hour and is product by Harvey Levin, Ryan Regan, Don Nash, Charles Latibeaudiere and Jess Fusco, with Susan Favre executive producer Susan Favre.

Arnold & Sly: from on-set rivals to good friends

The two stars brought unforgettable characters to the screen such as Conan the Barbarian, Terminators, Rocky, Rambo and many others. Yet, instead of entering into healthy competition, they risked the situation getting out of hand. In October, during an appearance at the The Graham Norton ShowSchwarzenegger admitted that his rivalry with Stallone “it got out of control.”

We were cinematic rivals, but we took the competitiveness to the extreme: we each had to have the best body, we had to kill the most people in our films, and we had to have the biggest guns. The situation got out of control and we tried to sabotage each other.

In 2022, Stallone even admitted to the microphones of Forbes that he and Schwarzenegger”they hated each other immensely“, before their rivalry became friendship. In the Nineties, in fact, something changed. Both invested in and promoted the restaurant chain Planet Hollywood. Then, in 2010, they appeared in films together The expendables and in sequels of 2012 and 2014. In 2013 they were co-stars of Escape Plan – Escape from Hell and Schwarzenegger recently appeared in The Family StalloneSly’s reality series Paramount+ .

“When we both invested in Planet Hollywood, we started flying around the world together to promote it and we became great, amazing friends,” continued Schwarzenegger. “He’s a great human being and now we’re inseparable.” In short, it was enough to get to know each other better to discover that they have very few reasons to go to war and that, in the hearts of the public, there is room for both.

“It may seem a bit vain – said Sylvester Stallone in this regard – but I think that at the time we were pioneers of a genre that has not been seen since. Hence the competition, because that’s his nature: he’s very competitive and so am I… and I just thought it actually helped. But even off screen we were still and It wasn’t healthy at allbut we became really good friends.”

In 2023, they are available on Netflix the documentaries dedicated to the two stars: the three-episode docuseries Arnold and the docu-film Sly.