Did Stallone give up some other career to pursue acting? Not really sure.īut pretty much everyone who cares about such things knows Lundgren’s basic story. Who’d Wesley Snipes date before he made it big? No idea. Where’d Bruce Willis go to school? Who knows. There’s a mythology surrounding Lundgren that exceeds that of most of his ’80s action contemporaries. “He’s also a guy who has lost everything and suffered a lot, and I’ve suffered a lot in my life.” “That’s what I’m using a lot for Drago,” says Lundgren. But revisiting the character in Creed II allowed the actor to work through issues he’s been battling much of his life: being abused by his father, the uncertainty of a faltering career, the way fighting can be an escape from that pain. Perhaps there’ve been times Lundgren, 61, has wanted to leave Drago behind. Jordan), the son of the man Ivan killed in the ring. When we pick up with Ivan Drago again, he has spent years training his son, Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu), for a match he hopes will redeem the family name: Viktor Drago vs. “People think, ‘He’s a robot and he has no emotions.’ Now I can do the opposite, and it’s very, very satisfying.” “It was my big break, but it also pigeonholed me,” Lundgren tells The Hollywood Reporter of his complicated relationship with Drago.
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