Rocky IV: The Strained Relationship Between Carl Weathers and Dolph Lundgren Almost Ended the Film

Rocky IV is one of the most outstanding feature films in Sylvester Stallone’s beloved boxing saga. The film offered a memorable combat between Dolph Lundgren’s Ivn Drago and the Italian Colt of the prestigious Hollywood actor who dedicated a few words to those who think that the action genre is minor. The finishing touch to the series featured a mythical confrontation that broke the hearts of thousands of Rocky’s followers and that almost ended the development of the project itself. Carl Weathers, actor who played Apollo Creed, was about to leave Rocky IV because he couldn’t stand Lundgren, and after his fictitious fight he wanted to leave.

Carl Weathers couldn’t even see Dolph Lundgren and Sylvester Stallone had to intervene so that Rocky IV could continue filming.

It is well known that Weathers did not have a special appreciation for Lundgren, with whom he did not share much. The action genre has delivered some of Hollywood’s most memorable pisses off, and this one is certainly one to frame. Despite the fact that years later it was stated that the actors had no problem with each other, the truth is that Stallone himself confessed in a talk to FandomWire that the actor who plays Apollo Creed was very close to abandoning the filming of Rocky IV. after submitting to a mock fight with fellow Expendables: “I saw Dolph Lundgren pick Carl up and throw him three feet into the corner…instead of retaliating, Carl walked out of the ring and said something to the effect of, ‘I’m going to call my agent…I’m quitting. !'”. It seems that Weathers was not too happy with another actor embarrassing him within Stallone’s fiction.