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Arnold Schwarzenegger Reveals His Machiavellian Sabotage of Sylvester Stallone in TMZ Special

In a new primetime interview, 'Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons,' Schwarzenegger reveals his role in landing Oscar-winner Stallone the lead in the 1992 dud, 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.'

As two titans of Tinseltown in the 1980s and early 1990s, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger found ideal rivals in one another and grew so competitive that the Hollywood heroes resorted to Machiavellian tactics to gain status as the world’s top action star, they revealed on Tuesday in a televised interview from TMZ. As their careers entered their peak era in the early 1990s, this sort of one-upmanship between the two box office sensations got so intense that Schwarzenegger made moves to sabotage Stallone’s trajectory. While TMZ ’s special is rife with self-aggrandizing sentiments and back-patting from the actors, the two former megastars manage to make solid points about their roles in Hollywood as era-defining, box office record-smashing big screen heroes.

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