Stallone calls Schwarzenegger ‘the most extraordinary guy I’ve ever met’

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Arnold Schwarzenegger may not be faring well in public opinion polls. But he has a continuing admirer in Sylvester Stallone.

“When people ask me who is the most extraordinary guy I’ve ever met, I answer that it’s him,’ Stallone said. ‘Think about it — the force of will and the fact that he is successful in three diverse and impossibly difficult areas. The politics of bodybuilding? Forget about it. And he was and is the most influential bodybuilder who ever lived, by far. Then, in Hollywood, with his background of being Austrian and all this baggage of not being American, and he became No. 1. And then politics, it’s off-the-chart hard, he’s the governor of California. That’s all, just the governor of the biggest state in population. This is not some city council somewhere. And he would make it as a presidential candidate. It’s mind-blowing.”

Geoff Boucher has more on Stallone and Schwarzenegger at The Times’ Hero Complex blog.

-- Anthony York in Sacramento