The actor Sylvester Stallone has told how was the hard fight that he had in 'Rocky IV' that was about to cost him his life.
The actor Sylvester Stallone has played practically indestructible character roles for years, but the truth is that he saw death up close shooting a scene from 'Rocky IV', released in 1985.
The scene in question was that of a Rocky boxing match with Ivan Drago, that is, Dolph Lundgren. Stallone, who is now 75 years old, has spoken about the recording of this scene in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel called 'The Making of Rocky vs. Dragon'.
"The first thing we recorded was my entrance, his entrance into the ring and the introductions and then I got badly injured during the fight and they had to move me to intensive care in California from Canada."
And he goes on to explain: "Well, it pulverized me. And I didn't feel it at the right time, but that night my heart started to swell. My blood pressure went up to 260 and I was about to go up with the angels. The next thing I remember is being on that emergency flight traveling at low altitude. Then I remember being in intensive care surrounded by nuns and then I had to go back and finish the fight,".
Stallone goes on to say that he stayed in ICU for four days before returning to film the rest of the final fight scene, confirming that Lundgren's hard punch to his chest that triggered all this is "the one in the movie. original".
