Overview
- Lundgren, 68, reflected in a newly reported Fox News interview that he did not realize on set that a real punch had seriously injured Sylvester Stallone.
- He said the climactic fight was filmed over two weeks in Vancouver and that he found out about the injury later when a producer told him Stallone was in the hospital.
- Lundgren added that he was following Stallone’s direction to “go really hard with the body,” and said he felt “a little guilty,” offering an apology.
- Stallone, now 79, previously said in a 2021 making-of documentary that he was flown from Canada to California and spent four days in an intensive care unit after the blow.
- Stallone has also said the actual punch that hurt him appears in the finished film, a choice reflecting the production’s push for realism, as coverage notes past on-set tensions later eased with co-star Carl Weathers.