Arnold Schwarzenegger has spoken about how he tricked Sylvester Stallone into joining renowned movie flop Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.

The Terminator actor had a famously rivalry with Stallone in the '80s and '90s, so much so that there were rumours Schwarzenegger leaked false information that he was interested in starring in the dud movie, so that Sly would sign up instead (which he did) – when really, Arnie thought the script was terrible.

And it turns out... that is totally true.

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"I read the script [for]," he told Slash Film. " It was so bad.

"You know, I've also done some movies that went right in the toilet, right? That were bad. But this was really bad.

"So I went in – this was during our war – I said to myself, I'm going to leak out that I have tremendous interest. I know the way it works in Hollywood. I would then ask for a lot of money. So then they'd say, 'Let's go give it to Sly. Maybe we can get him for cheaper'."

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He added: "So they told Sly, 'Schwarzenegger's interested. Here's the press clippings. He's talked about that. If you want to grab that one away from him, that is available'. And he went for it! He totally went for it.

"A week later, I heard about it, 'Sly is signing now to do this movie'. And I said, [pumps fist] 'Yes!'"

From: Digital Spy