- I think I didn't eat too much in those days
when I did a film.
I would just go on a very, very low carb, high protein diet,
especially if I had a shot with no shirt, I would dehydrate.
So I would just drink Diet Coke, no water,
not very good for you by the way,
but it made you look ripped.
So.
Hi, I'm Dolph Lundgren.
The internet is a place where people have a lot to say.
Today we're gonna read the comments and respond.
So this is "Don't Read the Comments."
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What's this guy eating and benching to look like this?
While I'm smoking a cigar, what am I eating?
Well, I think I had lobster that night.
That was New Year's Eve.
Normally I try to have a great breakfast.
I think that's the beginning of the day, it's important.
And then to eat quite a bit
because the food makes your train
rather than the other way around.
And benching, well, I got a shoulder injury at the moment
so I don't do a lot of heavy benching.
I do more show depressing in the machine,
the bench press machine.
While filming "Rocky IV," Sylvester Stallone
asked Dolph Lundgren to hit him for real.
Lundgren agreed and then hit him so hard
Stallone had to spend nine days
recovering in intensive care.
In a later interview, Lundgren showed no sympathy
stating, "All I did was obey orders."
Okay, is that what I said?
Well, we both get hit.
This is "Rocky IV" 1985, there's no CGI,
everything has to happen on screen in camera.
So we both get hit, especially to the body.
You know, we shot for two weeks that last fight in Vancouver
and then came back to LA and the producer calls me
and said, "Hey, Dolph, you gotta get a couple weeks off?"
I'm like, "Great, what's going on?"
"Well, Sly's in the hospital."
Then I heard they blame me for it.
I think it was like an insurance scam or something.
I mean, I did hit him,
but I think, you know, he was overworked,
he wrote the picture, he directed,
he was fighting me in the ring
and then those days, you know,
I was pretty good shape.
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Here's me and a little kitten.
Oh, it's our son, Bellow.
I must pet you.
Yeah, the Rocky quote, I hear it quite a bit.
Driving down Santa Monica
and there's a cop car going the other way.
And the guy gets on the loud hailer and goes,
"If you dies, he dies."
There's something about the one liner,
I'll be back or make my day.
Some writers write this beautiful dialogue
and win the Academy Award and nobody remembers it.
And then you'll have somebody go,
"You're looking at me, you're talking to me,"
whatever, then, you know, people remember it forever.
So I've been lucky to have a few of those things myself.
Dolph Lundgren is He-Man in the "Masters of the Universe."
Fricking love how the 80s was basically full
of these super buff barbarian style characters.
Between Conan, He-Man, Beast Master, Red Sonja, and so on.
Well, the thing is in the 80s,
if you did an action movie, there was no CGI,
you couldn't wear a muscle suit like you do today.
So that's why guys like me or Van Damme or Arnold
they came up because they had real muscles, you see.
My main memory was I was freezing my butt off
because my costume was the size of a stamp,
just down here in the genital area
and there was a couple of straps.
I was basically naked through whole movie, more or less.
So my memories being cold at night
and trying to hide behind my little leather stamp.
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All right, picture of me, Sly, Van Damme.
Which legend was the strongest, the wildest?
Well, the strongest,
Lou Ferrigno, maybe.
He's not in the picture but I used to train with him.
He used to do 30 sets of back
and I'm like two hours of just back workout.
The wildest,
well, it was either Van Damme or He-Man.
I don't know, one of the two.
This got five of my characters.
There's Universal Soldier's, there's He-Man,
there's just Punisher, Ivan Drago,
and there's Gunnar Jensen.
Who would win?
Yeah, it's a tough one.
Gunnar's got a gun and a knife, he's got a pretty good shot.
The Punisher has an M60 machine gun.
He-Man's got a sword, but it's like a magical sword.
Drago is just his fists.
I think they'd kill him first.
Sorry, Ivan.
And then you got Sergeant Scott,
he's got grenades and a machine gun.
I think Scott would maybe do it.
And he's a Universal Soldiers
so he can die and come back.
So it's perfect.
When will be "Expendables 4"?
Well, we shot "Expendables 4" this past fall
in London, Bulgaria, and Greece,
and I think it'll be a great film.
It's a bigger budget than the others.
You know, new people in there, 50 Cent's in it.
Megan Fox, there's Andy Garcia doing his acting thing.
Of course, myself, Statham, Stallone, Randy Couture,
a few others sort of the bad guys.
So I think it'll be a good film.
Oh my God, is this what you do to stay healthy and in shape?
Oh, yeah, this is from Norway and it was cold
and it was snowing and my foot was hurting
'cause I got an injury.
And I grabbed a glass of wine, went out there.
It was like 10 below, sat in the snow.
The wine got cold, but it helped my ankle injury.
I would recommend it.
Here is a shot of me and Sly during "Creed II."
The comment is Dolph, great looking,
nearly picture perfect physique and a degree chemistry.
You gotta be kidding me.
Listen, that picture is funny
'cause Sly and I were doing an interview
and I played Ivan Drago as an old guy and I got gray hair.
They made my hair grayer and grayer.
And Sly's got gray hair.
So we did this interview and Sly turns to camera and goes,
"Hey, I don't really wear makeup, okay.
I don't look like this."
I was like, "Sly, you're supposed to."
He would wipe his off all the time.
The makeup people were like upset with him.
He didn't wanna look old.
Dolph Lundgren on healing and forgiveness.
Oh yeah, there's was a Ted Talk I did.
And somebody says, "It's nice to know
there are good people in the world
who wanna help others who are hurting."
Well, yeah, I had a lot of pain as a kid.
It took me years and years to get over it.
I only really started dealing with it
when I was in my late forties.
Before that I just used it as an actor
or used it, you know, as a fighter.
But they came to me, wanted to do Ted Talk.
So I decided to speak about healing and forgiveness
because in order to be able to forgive others,
you have to forgive yourself first
and you have to heal yourself first,
then you can help others.
And that's what the talk was about.
You know, it's amazing how many men have these experiences
and a lot of women you know, it's more accepted
for them to speak out about their pain and hurt.
But most guys don't,
because they're supposed to just take it.
You know, about a few months later
I was coming into LAX and my driver was outside waiting,
but the cops move everybody around.
When I came out there
and there was big, this motorcycle cop, LAPD.
I said, "Hey, thanks, officer.
You know, you're doing a great job, I appreciate it."
And he goes, "I love you movies, man,
but I love you Ted Talk better."
Dolly Parton with Dolph Lundgren.
Oh, wow.
That's right.
That suit jacket looks a bit big, doesn't it?
Yeah, I was on her show.
I couldn't remember I was,
but I think we did a sketch together,
some kind of romantic comedy moment or something.
You know, I remember seeing her before I got into business.
I lived in New York on the lower west side
and there was a film crew and she was there
and then this guy comes out in his white suit,
Sylvester Stallone.
They're doing this film called,
he plays a country in Western star.
Sly sang in the movie, I don't know if he should have.
So I'd seen both Stallone and her before.
Yeah, she was nice lady.
Oh, this is this goofy Old Spice ad I'm doing at the moment.
It's a young Dolph Lundgren.
He looks like me but not like me.
He's a bit too skinny by the way.
Okay, why do I think of the new Old Spice scents?
Well, I like the old one.
That's the one I wear myself.
My dad used to use it in Sweden.
The new ones, I don't know which one is my favorite yet.
I'm gonna have to check them out and get back to you.
Now I've heard what the internet had to say
and I responded as best as I could.
That's it.
Thanks for watching.
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