Dolph Lundgren on Living with Stallone, Wild Times with Grace Jones & Why He Is Grateful for Cancer
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What is the podcast’s opening focus and what new projects does Dolph Lundgren promote?
In this episode, Dolph Lundgren That's right. I must break you. He's back. Also uh Dawson's got the news and we'll do all that right after this.
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Yeah, get it on. Got to get on. It's on Dolph Lundgren. Back in studio. He's got a book, Fights Worth Fighting. Finding Strength and Struggle. And uh that's coming out real soon, September 22nd. Um, but pre-order, you always pre-order in it'll arrive when the book comes out. That's what I found from writing books. And also the documentary. Dolph Unbreakable, which should be out somewhere around early October, and it's wherever you find finer documentaries. Everywhere. I love a documentary. Um Dolph's story is great, interesting. Can be heartbreaking, lots of highs and lows, but a pretty pretty well lived life. I would say. Would you trade it?
Um no. Nice to be here, Adam. No, no, I wouldn't actually You know, when you're in the midst of it sometimes you feel that way, but no. I think we were given our various lives for for a reason and we have to fulfill that reason, you know.
I know you had a pretty tough upbringing. Also I think you Or a person or I I almost wanted to say poster child, but When we see people on T V or in movies at the height of their powers, looking amazing, you just we look at these people and they go, We think, not a care in the world, you know, just touched by the hand of God, you know, everywhere you drive the lights just turn green and you just blow right through. But they don't think about the kind of childhood that you had growing up, right?
Um, no, you're right. Y I'm the same. It's it's hard to see behind the mask be you know of a of a star. But obviously the really, really famous people like Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson or, you know, Marilyn Monroe. I mean that it could you know, obviously f it can also be quite destructive, you know. I I think that in my case It's been it's been a good ride. I You know, I've had uh been very lucky. I I started out in little Sweden and my dad was very abusive towards me, my mom, so I had that kind of trauma which a lot of guys who end up in contact sports have football, boxing. Navy SEALs, you know, all of those dudes, military, police, force, um, I had the same thing and it drove me to become a fighter and uh later an actor.
You know, it's uh it's kinda interesting as I was looking at your story and we we talked about it and it's in the book, but you know, when I was watching the uh Schwarzenegger documentary, I was kinda like, I think there's a lot of parallels here. Arnold was, you know, He's older. did it earlier, but grew up in a small place, there was no celebrity. had an abusive dad, some alcoholism there, used his physicalness to get out as as a way out, you know, came here, had an accent. Probably no one thought of him as being an actor. He was all it was but he was the muscles guy. Uh I mean in in a way there's a lot of parallels there, isn't there?
Yeah, there are um Yeah, from a small country, Austria and Sweden, they're both small. Uh he had a tough dad. I I believe he was a police officer. Um my dad was an officer, uh but I think uh one difference was that I think Arnold was very determined early to he already knew he wanted to be a bodybuilding champion, he wanted to be a movie star. He had that already in in the works. And uh I didn't. I just wanted to get the hell out of Sweden and I I was pretty smart in school. I was uh good at science and engineering, so I I got scholarships that way.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the podcast’s opening focus and what new projects does Dolph Lundgren promote?
0:00–16:41
2
How does Dolph describe his childhood and the challenges that led him to leave Sweden?
16:41–32:33
3
What wild experiences did Dolph have with Grace Jones at Studio 54 and in New York?
32:33–46:51
4
What was it like for Dolph to live with Sylvester Stallone and train for Rocky IV?
46:51–57:47
5
How did the sparring accident with Stallone affect Dolph and what happened afterward?
57:47–1:08:17
6
Why does Dolph consider his cancer diagnosis a blessing and how did it change his outlook?
1:08:17–1:29:06
7
What major news stories does the show cover, including Paramount’s move and the helicopter crash?
1:29:06–1:44:04
8
What happened with the high‑school football team and what upcoming live events does Dolph announce?
1:44:04–1:48:05