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The Terminator and Rocky Balboa walk into a bar… and face off?

Previously, that might have been the more realistic end of the punch line, as the stars behind these iconic film figures, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, sustained a massive rivalry throughout the 80’s and 90’s.

According to NME, the former governor of California is set to appear on tonight’s episode of The Graham Norton Show on BBC1, where he claimed that he and Stallone “were movie rials,” but “took the competitiveness to the extreme.”

“We each had to have the best body, we had to kill more people in our films, and we had to have the biggest guns,” he added. “It got out of control, and we tried to derail each other.”

However, he highlighted a dramatic shift in their relationship after they “both invested in Planet Hollywood.”

“We started flying around the world together to promote it and we became fantastic friends,” he gushed. “He is a great human being, and we are now inseparable.”

The feeling must be mutual, as Stallone commended Schwarzenegger’s “superior” skills as an action star in Netflix‘s Arnold, which hit the streamer in June, per Entertainment Weekly.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone — Photo: Getty Images

“He just had all the answers,” he said in the docuseries. “He had the body. He had the strength. That was his character.”

The two joined forces on The Expendables trilogy and Escape Plan, which strengthened their friendship, as well, per NME.

However, this is not the first time Schwarzenegger has opened up about his rivalry with Stallone. In May, he told Forbes that they “really disliked each other” because they “were pioneering a kind of genre at that time and it hasn’t been seen since really,” which he noted “may sound a little vain.”

“So the competition, because it’s his nature, he is very competitive and so am I… and I just thought it actually helped, but off-screen we were still competitive and that was not a healthy thing at all, but we’ve become really good friends,” he added.