Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are three action movie icons from the 80s and 90s, and while we might think that rivalry was the tonic between them, the reality is that they share a scandal-proof friendship.
Initially, the protagonists of “Terminator” and “Rambo” had quarrels with each other, which they left when Bruce Willis entered the industry with his role in “Die Hard”.
And that is that they realized that they can coexist in Hollywood without any problems, each for their own niche. “I couldn’t play ‘Terminator’. I know. And what Bruce did in ‘Die Hard’ was also a definitive character,” Stallone said in an interview.
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After their differences were ironed out, the actors paralleled the Three Musketeers as they enjoyed awards, events and even Stallone’s 60th birthday party together in 2006.
Although the scandal made headlines in 2013, when Bruce Willis refused to participate in the third part of “The Expendables”, demanding four million dollars for three days of filming, as Yahoo!
Because of this incident, Sylvester Stallone even announced on his Twitter that Bruce was kicked out of the production for being “greedy and lazy”, a controversy that eventually became “a thing of the past”.
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A few months ago, Bruce Willis retired from the film industry after being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a brain disorder that both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone have described as deplorable in interviews and on social media.
“I understand that due to your health circumstances you had to retire. But in general, we never give up. Action heroes reload,” Schwarzenegger said in an interview with CinemaBlend.
While Stallone’s health condition makes his friend impotent, since Bruce Willis is the actor with whom he practically started in the cinema. “If you’re going to say you love someone, say it now,” he told Access Hollywood.
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