Sylvester Stallone on Why He ‘Hated’ Dolph Lundgren IRL When Casting ‘Rocky IV’ (Video)

“If I loathe him, I’m sure the world will,” Sly says, recalling meeting Ivan Drago

With the best movie villains, you know how evil they are the moment you lay eyes on them. And that was exactly the case for Sylvester Stallone when he cast Dolph Lundgren for “Rocky IV.”

In fact he genuinely hated the guy he eventually cast to play Ivan Drago.

“He was like the real Terminator, and I go, ‘I hate this friggin’ guy,’” Stallone told Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” Friday. “He’s just too perfect, too good looking. And if I loathe him, I’m sure the world will. He’s not really, but he looks like something that’s a thousand years in the future.

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