Christmas Day usually involves waking up early, eating lots of food and pretending to like the leather driving gloves that your nan got you (again). However, while it may be nicknamed Tinseltown, in perennially snow-less Hollywood they do things differently.
For instance, when was the last time you hung out with a million-dollar movie star on the holy day itself? Well, beef is unusual on Christmas Day (I hope you're listening, Dad) so
and
Sylvester Stallone decided to definitively prove that their long-publicised feud is over.
Having fought for decades to be Hollywood action movies' number one man, their beef continued as both their careers skyrocketed. Stallone even admitted that, back in the 80s, he possessed a "violent hatred" of Arnie. How anyone could hate a man who consistently saves kindergarteners from an evil criminal every Christmas I do not know.
However, yesterday Stallone posted an image of the two together. In front of a life-size, half-naked statue of his most iconic character, Stallone posed with Schwarzenegger and suggestively tugged at his belt. The caption stated: "Well look who drop by on Christmas! @schwarzenegger always fills the room with positive energy!" The picture currently has nearly 400,000 likes.
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Having recently given up the director's chair for upcoming Rocky-esque movie Creed 2, maybe Stallone has picked up a few PR responsibilities instead. He recently posted a picture to Instagram of him with Swedish actor, director, screenwriter, producer, martial artist and
chemical engineering graduate
Hans "Dolph" Lundgren. That said, you probably know him as Rocky's opponent in Rocky IV.
"Shooting a commercial with Dolph today," Stallone stated. "Getting ready for working with the big man in CREED 2."
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However, it's not just working with Dolph that continues to fill out the ageing actor's IMDb profile - he has worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger himself in the Expendables films and in Escape Plan - a 2013 action thriller which sees the two Hollywood giants take the leading roles, alongside names like Vinnie Jones and 50 Cent.
Of course, things weren't always this rosy. "Did you ever have someone you wanted to strangle every day?" Stallone stated. "It got to the point where we stopped talking to each other and couldn’t be in the same room."
Speaking in 2013 about his famous rivalry with Schwarzenegger, Stallone explained: "After a while, I started to like this competition, this one-upmanship. He'd get a bigger gun. I'd shoot more people. He'd shoot more people. But then, he went into science fiction, which kind of left me behind."
At the height of their rivalry,
Schwarzenegger even managed to trick Stallone into taking a role in possibly the worst buddy-cop movie ever made. Esteemed critic Roger Ebert said that Stop or my Mom Will Shoot was "so dimwitted, so utterly lacking in even the smallest morsel of redeeming value, that you stare at the screen in stunned disbelief."
"I heard Arnold wanted to do that movie," Stallone explains, "and after hearing that, I said I wanted to do it. He tricked me! He’s always been clever."
Stop or my Mom Will Shoot also stars Estelle Getty and scores 4 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
However, thanks to social media, we now finally have proof by personal profile that the former governor of California and the former credible actor are indeed good friends. While these two are probably gorging on goose, I have some leftover beef to attend to.
