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Schwarzenegger: No Regrets Over Stallone Feud

"It was good for the fans", explains action legend.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has spoken about the so-called 'violent hatred' between himself and action movie rival Sylvester Stallone back in their 80s heydays, while promoting new film ‘Sabotage’.

Last year Sly revealed to Letterman that the pair didn't get on at all. In any way.

“We had violent hatred,” said Sly. “Have you ever had that ever? Competition where you really had an arch enemy that kind of brings out the best in you. As Arnold would say, it really pushed you to accelerate.”

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But the Austrian Oak has declared that Sly may have been puffing the whole spat up a little.

“I don't know if it was violent,” Arnie told Yahoo UK Movies. “You know Sly, he exaggerates.”

“What it was... We had a competition. And here's a perfect example of how competition is healthy, because he was trying to out-do me. But I was also trying to out-do him. So who benefitted? The fans.

“I was training harder, he was training harder. It was a competition of who has more muscles, who has more cuts, who has the lower body fat, who uses the biggest guns, who kills the most people, who has the most creative killings, and this went on and on and on.”



This “competition” perhaps explains the increasingly ludicrous body counts and muscle sizes of films like ‘Rambo 3’, ‘Commando’, ‘Rocky 4’ and ‘Predator’.

Eventually however, the pair buried the hatchet became good chums.

“So the movies became better and better because of it. And eventually, we grew up, right?” he said.

“We were doing Planet Hollywood together and we were laughing about it on the plane when we flew around... we've become very good friends, and I'm a big supporter of Sly, because I really always thought I admired him, even though there was competition.

“He's a great director, he's a great writer, a great actor, a great producer and also a fantastic artist. His paintings are great. And he's a great family man. He has it all.”



In our exclusive audience with Arnie, he told us why he wasn’t surprised that his comeback films have been more successful outside the US, and explained his positive outlook on life.

Watch the full interview above.

In Schwarzenegger’s new film ‘Sabotage’, he plays a corrupt DEA agent whose team is targeted when a stash of money nabbed in a drugs bust goes missing.

David Ayers, who helmed ‘End of Watch’ directs, while a virtually unrecognizable Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard, Josh Holloway, Joe Manganiello, Mireille Enos and Olivia Williams fill out the cast.

'Sabotage' is released in the UK on May 7 2014.  Watch the trailer below.