Stallone vs. Schwarzenegger, the eternal "competition": "We were antagonists. I dreamed of hitting him and he dreamed of hitting me."

They are two of the biggest names in Hollywood cinema, especially for those who think about muscles, action and punches.

Their lives (barely a year apart) and their careers have run practically in parallel.

But, nevertheless, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, far from being the great colleagues that some might suppose, were staunch enemies for years.

Their hatred reached such heights that they even wanted to come to blows.

Now that the two are already in their septuagenarians, the waters are calmer and Stallone has confessed that this eternal fight is over, and now they even have coffee together from time to time.

The interpreter of the

saga , who turned 75 last July, has spoken of this visceral hatred during a talk on the television program

of the Canadian chain ET, where he has recounted that for years a sharp fight prevailed between them.

The space presenter jokes with Stallone that he can't imagine the actors "fooling around together", but he goes further and assures that there was "a real competition" between the two.

“We were real antagonists, adversaries.

I used to dream of hitting him and he used to dream of hitting me.

It is his nature and he is also mine and I am not going to take it lightly, ”said the New Yorker, who also analyzed the character of his rival.

“He got to where he got because he knew how to analyze the opposite of him and he also worked very hard.

He always did."

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When they finally got together, Stallone says, it was like a meeting between "two fighters" who "brought out the best and the worst in each other."

A meeting that, he says with a laugh, he won.

“The truth is that it was good, fantastic.

It's great to have this person, that opposite, prodding you and pushing you, seriously, you need it.

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you have to make friends with everyone.'

And no.

You need a good enemy.

That puts your feet on the ground."

That feud has morphed and it is now the 74-year-old

star who often writes to her for coffee together.

Their rivalry dates back to the 1970s, when they both began to star in movies and become part of the Hollywood elite.

Stallone describes his former enemy as a "very intelligent" and "open" guy.

"Sometimes he's a little withdrawn," he admits.

"Early in my career I learned that you have to give something up to gain something."

Their enmity peak came at the beginning of the nineties when, according to the

protagonist , rumors reached him that Schwarzenegger wanted to be part of the film

“He's very smart, going around town saying, 'I can't wait to make this movie.'

I told my agent to get me the part.

I got it and I said, 'What a piece of shit this is,' explains the actor.

The film became one of Stallone's biggest movie flops.

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An anecdote that the actor from

also recalled a few months ago in an interview with

.

“In those days we did all kinds of crazy things to win our rivalry.

Luckily for us and for the whole world, today we support each other."

Shortly after the movie was released, the hatchet was finally buried.

movies together

.

Of this enmity only the memories and anecdotes that little by little the actors have been revealing remain.