Rocky IV
Rocky IVstar Dolph Lundgren disclose the on - set tenseness between him and cobalt - star Carl Weathers . Having play Apollo Creed in the first threeRockyfilms , Weathers was no unknown to the hugely successful mutation movie franchise when he returned for a quaternary go - around . Rocky IVwould indeed establish to be atmospheric condition ’ lastRockyfranchiseappearance as Creed ( exterior of flashbacks ) , as the character splendidly died in the ring while crusade the Russian colossus Ivan Drago , played by fledgeling Lundgren .
But Lundgren did n’t only feel tension with Weathers as a result of their playing adversaries , he also felt it off - camera due to unfamiliarity , as he revealed exclusively to Screen Rant during a Fan Expo control panel . Lundgren recalls being comfortable withRockyactor Sylvester Stallone after sparring with him for weeks :
Well , I did n’t know Carl [ before Rocky IV ] . I have a go at it Stallone because we boxed and train together for six months , and he was my boss . We were in the articulated lorry six days a week , so you push each other around , you ’re spar , and you get to know each other . But Carl , I did n’t get it on .
Lundgren speak about meeting Weathers shortly before they began shootingRocky IV ’s pivotal Creed vs. Drago battle , discussing why conditions may have had reasonableness to doubt his new , untried Centennial State - star :
When I first met him , we were shooting the fighting of Apollo versus Drago in Las Vegas , and Carl showed up two 24-hour interval before . I was there to rehearse it with him , and he did n’t know me . He just saw this fully grown fricking blonde guy wire who looks unsafe . He listen this guy wire ’s a karate champion , and he ’s never acted before . I think Carl get a picayune bit like , “ Am I really … ? Should I really do this ? Am I fail to subsist this fight ? ”
I was in character a lot around the ring , so I was always Drago . I was walk around like him . In the beginning , we did n’t speak much . There was a little bit of stress there , and then of course in the fight , I end up beating him up middling badly . I did n’t really get to know him that well .
Lundgren says he and Weathers , who passed aside in 2024 , became friendly in late year :
But later at the premiere of the movie and then by and by , professionally , I met him many time … We did a couple of Comic - Cons together , and he turned out to be a really nice guy who was very friendly . But I guess he was always a little bit mad about what happened in Rocky I through IV . I did n’t write the script ! [ Laughs ]
What This Means For Lundgren And Weathers’ Rocky IV Legacies
Drago Vs. Creed Is One Of Cinema’s Great Shockers
Lundgren’sIvan Dragohas gone down in chronicle as one of the best movie villain of all - fourth dimension . The cold and restrain Drago ’s in the end tragic battle with Apollo was not only a shocking growth at the time of the moving picture ’s release , it proved to have massive leg for the wholeRockyfranchise . first of all , it transfer Weathers from the equation in subsequentRockyfilms . Secondly , it set the phase for Michael B. Jordan ’s much - late arrival on the shot , encounter Apollo ’s pugilist son Adonis Creed .
Creed 2saw Apollo ’s son Adonis fighting Drago ’s son Viktor
Rocky IVwriter / film director / star Stallone has since express misgiving about killing offApollo Creed , but from a spectacular stand , it was arguably the right call . If Lundgren and Weathers receive real tension in their off - photographic camera kinship , it plausibly only helped their acting as they played their big fit , which begin with Creed take Drago lightly , and end with him being battered into his tomb . Lundgren ’s raw story adds extra background colour to what was already a classic moving-picture show panorama .
Rocky IV sees the return of Sylvester Stallone’s iconic heavyweight champion after his victory over Clubber Lang. When an exhibition match between Carl Weathers' Apollo Creed and Dolph Lundgren’s USSR boxing star Ivan Drago goes wrong, Rocky Balboa puts all his efforts into defeating the Soviet athlete in order to honor his friend’s legacy and exalt America’s patriotic spirit.
Our Take On Lundgren’s Tense Experience With Weathers
Everything Turned Out All Right In The End
It ’s perhaps understandable that weather would be skeptical of Lundgren going intoRocky IV , give the Drago actor ’s lack of experience . Lundgren may indeed have been limited as an actor , but he had the unadulterated animalism for Drago , and his icy demeanor meet the almost robotic nature of the grapheme .
Lundgren and Weathers ’ initial chilliness toward each other may have help their epic competitiveness tantrum cultivate even better , so , ultimately , it was a plus . But it ’s nevertheless secure to discover that after on the ice melted between them and they became friendly . TheRocky IVco - stars are forever linked in movie history , and it ’s heartwarming that they enjoyed something of a adherence in the tangible world , thanks in part to their Comic - Con appearances .
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Rocky IV examine the retort of Sylvester Stallone ’s iconic heavyweight protagonist after his triumph over Clubber Lang . When an exhibition equal between Carl Weathers ' Apollo Creed and Dolph Lundgren ’s USSR boxing wizard Ivan Drago hold out wrong , Rocky Balboa frame all his effort into defeating the Soviet athlete for honor his friend ’s legacy and exalt America ’s loyal spirit .
