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Sylvester Stallone has done many iconic films and is unparalleled in the action genre, with his Rocky franchise still etched in everyone’s minds. The sports drama film series about the journey of Rocky Balboa had been engaging, generating loads of fans who love watching Stallone in that character. But did you know that he almost died while filming the 4th instalment in the Rocky franchise?
The fourth instalment in the franchise had a showdown between Stallone’s character and Dolph Lundgren‘s Captain Ivan Drago, and during filming the scene, things went sideways, and he ended up getting hurt. But more than that, he was hurt about that that the particular sequence was not in the film’s theatrical cut, which literally hospitalised him.
A few years ago, Sylvester Stallone posted a video on his YouTube titled ‘The Making of Rocky vs Drago’, i.e. Rocky IV, where he shared the incident when while filming a showdown scene, his on-screen nemesis went off script, which caused him to almost lose his life. He recalled, “I got really injured during the fight, I had to be flown into intensive care to California from Canada.” However, Dolph Lundgren was not completely at fault as Stallone admitted to having to encourage his co-star to go all out on him. He said, “Well, he pulverized me.” The seriousness of it was realised by everyone after the scene was done, and later at night, Stallone fell sick.
