HIS FAMILY
Actor Dolph still in the fight after boxing role
ed a. ke jump ich we ttle e were of this he didn’t and I was pretty scared. I couldn’t jump off, it was too fast. That’s the last time I ride on one of his vehicles.” Dolph has had his fair share of injuries too. “They say it’s one scar per picture,” he says. “Definitely at least half of the movies I’ve injured something. But we only live once. “I figured I have a pretty interesting life, so if I come away with some injuries and scars, that’s OK.”
He also says Arnold Schwarzenegger always made him lug the heavier weapons on The Expendables. Doing an Arnie impression, Dolph jokes: “Ahh, give it to Dolph, it’s too heavy!” Stallone and Lundgren He lives in LA with partner of eight years Jenny Sanderson, below, but insists he doesn’t hang out much with the Hollywood crowd. Although he’s friends with Stallone, Arnold and Jean Claude. He travels between there, Sweden and Marbella, Spain. Dolph and ex-wife Anette Qviberg, raised daughters Greta, 17, and Ida, 22, in the Spanish city. Today, he meditates and reads a lot about relationships. Dolph says: “For me, a lot of times, it’s about having less time to be together and travelling a lot. That can lead to tension and misunderstanding. I read about relationship stuff, how to avoid fighting with your partner. I also like to read about spiritual matters and Buddhism. I meditate every day.” Ivan is son Viktor’s trainer in Creed II Dolph will forever be linked to Rocky after playing Ivan Drago, Sylvester Stallone’s nemesis in the fourth instalment of the blockbuster boxing series.
He has since appeared in The Expendables, Universal Soldier and Masters of The Universe – and will soon be seen as King Nereus in upcoming big-budget movie Aquaman.
In Creed II, he reprises his 1985 role as Soviet fighter Drago, who killed Rocky’s pal Apollo Creed in the ring. But this time his son Viktor and Apollo’s son
Adonis face off against each other.
At least the dad-of-two’s roles seem less dangerous these days.
Dolph says: “You can use CGI to cover things up.
“It’s much easier.
Rocky IV was just me and Stallone in the boxing ring all the time. There were no doubles. If you wanted blood to spray out of the mouth you had to put some fake blood in there and spit it out.”
Although it was Stallone who came off worst on the Rocky IV set after being hit in the heart.
“I know that he hit me a few times and I hit him back,” explains Dolph.
“I was a 26-year-old kid and he told me what to do so I just obeyed orders. Then I got two weeks off, so I was really excited about it until I found out he was in the hospital. I didn’t know...” Apollo and Ivan, above, and Viktor and Adonis DAUGHTERS With Ida, left, and Greta