Arnold Schwarzenegger admits rivalry with Sylvester Stallone got ‘out of control’

Arnold Schwarzenegger has opened up about his past rivalry with Sylvester Stallone, admitting that their feud got “out of control.”

Appearing on “The Graham Norton Show” Friday, “The Terminator” actor said that at the height of the pair’s feud, they began to “derail each other.”

“We were movie rivals, but we took the competitiveness to the extreme — we each had to have the best body, we had to kill more people in our films, and we had to have the biggest guns,” Schwarzenegger said.

“It got out of control, and we tried to derail each other. Then, when we both invested in Planet Hollywood, we started flying around the world together to promote it and we became fantastic friends.”

The two macho men one-upped each other in every way imaginable, from who had the “biggest gun” to who had “less body fat when he goes into production.”

The pair’s feud eventually died down in the late 1990s and now finally consider each other to be good friends.

“He is a great human being, and we are now inseparable,” added Schwarzenegger, who served as California’s governor from 2003 to 2011.

They began working together once they decided to put their differences aside, starring opposite each other in “Escape Plan” and “The Expendables.”

“I’m so glad we straightened out our mess because it wasn’t pretty,” Schwarzenegger said in 2017 of their past feud, according to SlashFilm.

“We were attacking each other in the press relentlessly. We called each other names and called out our weak points, and it was so competitive.”

In June, Stallone claimed that Schwarzenegger was always ahead of the curve.

“He just had all the answers,” he said. “He had the body. He had the strength. That was his character.”

And in 2013, he told David Letterman, “After a while, I started to like this competition, this one-upmanship. He’d get a bigger gun. I’d shoot more people. He’d shoot more people.”

It seems as though their friendship has only been getting stronger, as last year the pals even carved pumpkins together.

The pair even used survival knives for the occasion, perhaps as a subtle nod to their respective action-packed heydays, as such weapons played key roles in Stallone’s “Rambo” and Schwarzenegger’s “Commando.”