Sylvester Stallone toldDolph Lundgren during the making of Rocky IV to really hit him — the result was the star being hospitalized in the intensive care unit for nine days.
The classic installment in the iconic boxing series turns 35 on Friday. To commemorate, The Hollywood Reporter unearthed previous interviews the two stars did about the incident, which turned out to be quite serious.
In Rocky IV,Lundgren played the towering, ripped Ivan Drago. Wanting their battle to look as real as possible, star and directorStallone toldLundgren he wanted a few punches to really connect. "Dolph Lundgren put me in the hospital for nine days,"Stallone said in a previous interview.
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