You could see these young East German guards up in the tower looking down at me going, ‘Who is that guy?’ … If you tried to cross in those days, you were shot dead.” I went to Berlin for the release in Germany, and they took pictures of me jogging by the Berlin Wall. “I understood a little more when (‘Rocky IV’) came out, because obviously the Cold War was still going on and people were asking me questions about politics. “Being a kid and being in it, I didn’t really understand it,” he says. after World War II, Lundgren could have never predicted that “Rocky IV” would become an iconic statement to end the Cold War. He says he’s most fascinated by the Allies’ development of the atomic bomb, particularly how Allied paratroopers sabotaged Hitler’s water plant in Norway to prevent the Nazis from building the bomb.Īs the nuclear arms race heated up between the U.S. … It was kind of in the air more in Europe … I’ve just always been fascinated by it and what it was like and what a huge conflict it was and how it changed the world.” He was kind of an expert, and as a kid, I grew up in the ’60s, so World War II wasn’t that far away.
I’m a big fan, a big buff,” says Lundgren, who grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. “My dad was an Army officer, and he used to lay there in bed and read about different battles and he wrote articles about it as well. Lundgren says the DVD or Blu Ray is a fine holiday stocking stuffer for any military buff. Most recently, he starred with Mickey Rourke and Chuck Liddell in the World War II flick “War Pigs” about a ragtag unit behind enemy lines against the Nazis. In the 30 years since “Rocky IV,” Lundgren has become an action star, from the Bond flick “A View to a Kill” (1985) to the Marvel superhero flick “The Punisher” (1989) to his role as Gunner Jensen in “The Expendables” trilogy (2010-2014). “I was gonna do ‘if he dies, he dies’ to my neighbor as we were sitting there in the seats, but I thought, no, I shouldn’t,” Lundgren jokes, recalling his infamously dismissive response to Creed’s collapse. Sitting at the “Creed” premiere, he had a rather mischievous idea to quote a classic Drago line. I was a bit nervous about that, how he died. But anyway, it was a pleasure seeing it, and I was especially happy because they never showed how the father, Apollo Creed, was killed. He plays an old Rocky and he really kind of plays his age, but he’s actually fitter (in real life) than the guy he plays in the movie.
“The director (Ryan Coogler) did a great job, and the lead actor (Michael B. Of course, Lundgren’s challenge is all in fun. “Sorry kid, you’re very weak for a young kid. Now it’s your turn.” “I must break you,” actor Dolph Lundgren tells WTOP, laughing through his trademark Drago accent.
Now, Drago has a message for Creed’s son, the same intimidating threat he handed Rocky. You’ll recall Apollo’s lavish James Brown entrance was fatally spoiled by Soviet slugger Ivan Drago, who beat Apollo to death and forced Rocky to avenge him in an East vs. WASHINGTON - The “Rocky” sequel “Creed” is winning acclaim at the box office, tracking Adonis Creed, orphan son of Rocky’s famous rival Apollo Creed, who died in the ring in “Rocky IV” (1985).
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