Despite being best friends with fellow actor Sylvester Stallone, the “Total Recall” alum, 76, doesn’t like to go yachting with his pal.
The former California governor recalled to People recently how the “Rocky” star, 77, would call him and ask: “Want to come on the yacht?”
“What, do you think I’m going to ask, ‘When can I have dinner?’ It’s not going to happen,” Schwarzenegger joked. “I can get my own yacht. That’s not my trip. I can’t even relax under those circumstances.”
“He always has to do everything I do,” Schwarzenegger teased. However, he “really admires” Stallone.
The “Kindergarten Cop” star added of the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor: “I love him. He’s just a different person than me. He’s much more raw, and he’s much more vulnerable and in touch with his emotions.”
“When he gets mad, he just gets mad,” he went on. “It’s like when you light a fuse — his goes right away. ‘Boom!’ Mine goes, ‘Shhh.’ It takes two days to get to the actual boom. It makes him good in acting, because he feels things immediately.”
Stallone and Schwarzenegger have been frenemies for decades, as both are two of the biggest action stars in Tinseltown.
The former politician shot to fame with the “Terminator” franchise in the 1980s.FilmMagic
The pair were at the top of their game in the 1980s with flicks like “Rambo” and “Terminator” dominating the box office.
Stallone even appeared in his friend’s Netflix documentary “Arnold” earlier this year and opened up about their past rivalry.
“The ’80s was a very interesting time because the definitive ‘action guy’ had not really been formed yet,” Stallone explained.
“Up until that time, action was a car chase like ‘Bullitt’ or ‘The French Connection,’ and a film all about intellect and innuendo and verbal this and verbal that,” he explained.
Stallone has made a name for himself in the directing, screenwriting and acting sectors of Hollywood with his boxing “Rocky” series. Getty Images for Paramount+
The “Expendables” star then admitted that Schwarzenegger was a pioneer of the fist-pumping genre, noting that “dialogue was not necessary” in order to tell a story.
“You actually relied upon your body to tell the story,” the “First Blood” star said, before calling him the higher-caliber artist of the two.
“I saw that there was an opportunity because no one else was doing this except some other guy from Austria, who doesn’t need to say much,” Stallone said. “He was superior. He just had all the answers. He had the body. He had the strength. That was his character.”