{"id":3187,"date":"2010-11-21T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T17:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2010-11-21T14:48:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T18:48:42","slug":"dolph-lundgren-talks-expendables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/21\/dolph-lundgren-talks-expendables\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolph Lundgren Talks “Expendables”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On November 17, 2010<\/strong>, Spinoff Online<\/strong><\/a> posted a nice little interview with Dolph Lundgren<\/strong> about his role in “The Expendables.” <\/strong><\/em> Here are a couple of quotes…<\/p>\n

Dolph<\/strong> on his character: “In the original draft, the character [Gunnar<\/strong>] died and was not brought back, but then we started shooting and things changed after a little bit. Actually, there was a bigger scene at the end where suddenly Gunnar<\/strong> came back in an even bigger moment, but then we changed it to a more subtle revival the way it is now where he shows up. That was more tasteful, I thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dolp<\/strong>h on setting up his fight scene with Jet Li<\/em><\/strong>: “It gets a little erratic on the set because you have Stallone<\/strong>, you have the stunt coordinator, you have a couple of Jet Li\u2019s<\/strong> fight coordinators\u2026and everybody\u2019s trying to get in there and have their say. Obviously, everyone is a bit overworked, and there\u2019s a lot of time pressure. So it\u2019s easy for a real punch to slip in there, but I\u2019m kind of used to that. I still spar in real life, so it doesn\u2019t bother me very much. But there were an unusual number of cooks for that fight because, like I said, all of the coordinators, but Stallone<\/strong> came in \u2013 he had been shooting somewhere else, and it was a hot day\u2026one of the hottest when we were filming in New Orleans<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0and he came in and was like [Puts on Stallone<\/strong> accepts] \u201cHey, yeah\u2026we\u2019re going to shoot like this\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the full interview here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

On November 17, 2010<\/strong>, MovieWeb<\/a> <\/strong>posted a great little interview with Dolph<\/strong> where he talked about “The Expendables”<\/strong> and his next projects.\u00a0 Here are a couple of quotes:<\/p>\n

Dolph<\/strong> on how Sly<\/strong> has changed as a director between “Rocky IV”<\/em> <\/strong>and “The Expendables”<\/strong><\/em>: On Rocky IV<\/span><\/strong><\/em> he was very detailed oriented. He was very intense. He didn’t leave anything to chance. He wants it right. He keeps shooting until he gets it. It was the same this time. I’d worked with other directors in-between. Like Roland Emmerich<\/span> <\/strong>and John Woo<\/span><\/strong>. There is a certain intensity to Sly<\/span><\/strong> that these other people don’t have. There is another level. Obviously, he has matured a bit as a man. I think he took more time in talking to the actors about their performances. Maybe he was a little more patient. Basically, ninety percent of it was the same. It was physically intense. He has a “take no prisoners” type of attitude as a director.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dolph <\/strong>on who he’d like to see join the Expendables<\/strong><\/em> sequel: I think Jean-Claude Van Damme<\/span><\/strong> would be fun. I’d love to see him in it as a bad guy. Because he has never really played that. I think that would be a big draw. The other guys that I really like in the genre are Wesley Snipes<\/span>. Vin Diesel<\/span><\/strong>. There are a few guys that I really like. There are a few young guys that I really like, too. It could be interesting. There is always Chuck Norris<\/span><\/strong>, of course (laughs).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To read the full interview, go here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dolph<\/strong> also did a Q&A with ScreenJunkies<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s a taste:<\/p>\n

Dolph<\/strong> on movie fights and squaring off against Jet Li<\/strong> in The Expendables<\/strong><\/em>: The experience was most guys you fight in a movie aren\u2019t movie stars. They\u2019re extras or doubles or stunt men. It\u2019s very rare you fight someone like Stallone<\/strong> or Van Damme<\/strong> if you\u2019re a name actor. That\u2019s always a highlight. Last time I fought somebody like that I guess would have been Van Damme<\/strong> in Universal Soldier<\/em><\/strong><\/em>, where the actor can fight so you\u2019re actually with the actor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the whole piece here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

On November 20, 2010, Dolph<\/strong> spoke with WorstPreviews<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 You know the drill…<\/p>\n

Dolph<\/strong> on how he learned about The Expendables<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What happened was Stallone<\/strong> called me out of the blue and just said (in Stallone’s<\/strong> voice) ‘Hey Dolph<\/strong>, you know. Here’s a script, you know. Ay yo, check it out.’ So I checked it out and then I checked out the character he told me to look at, Gunner Jensen<\/strong>, the crazy Swedish<\/strong> psycho who drinks too much and kills people. And I thought ‘Ok,’ I understand why he called me, I can do this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Dolph <\/strong>on why there are no Hollywood<\/strong> tough guys anymore… “Society has changed. Look at John Wayne<\/strong> and Robert Mitchum<\/strong>, they were guys who would have bar fights and carried real guns on the set. It was a different era. People fought in the second World War. Jimmy Stewart <\/strong>bombed in missions over Germany<\/strong> and was shot at by real bullets. Can you imagine some movie star today flying over Iraq and going in there getting shot at for real? That would never happen. They were just much tougher people. That rubbed off on the cinema.”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a link to the whole piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 17, 2010, Spinoff Online posted a nice little interview with Dolph Lundgren about his role in “The Expendables.” Here are a couple of quotes… Dolph on his character: “In the original draft, the character [Gunnar] died and was not brought back, but then we started shooting and things changed after a little bit. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,20,50,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-celebs","category-expendables","category-fan-art","category-rambo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-Pp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}