Sylvester Stallone – Rocky IV

Never ask Dolph Lundgren to beat you up. That’s what Sylvester Stallone did during the filming of Rocky IV. Lundgren played Russian nemesis Ivan Drago who promised he would break Stallone’s Rocky Balboa. Just before filming their climactic fight, Stallone asked Lundgren to really try to knock him out for the first 45 seconds or, in his words, “go for it.”

After Lundgren landed a few punches, Stallone yelled to cut. That night, his blood pressure shot up to 260 and he was rushed to the hospital.

Stallone, at 61, also performed most of his stunts in Rambo. Originally, carried away by fanboy love, he told Aintitcoolnews that he wanted to do another film which would essentially be Rambo vs. Predator. People would surely pay good money to hear the Italian Stallion say, “for the first few seconds, really try and pull my spine out, just go for it.”