Appearances can be deceiving, and as audiences learn in Friday's testosterone-fueled sequel The Expendables 2, even Dolph Lundgren's volatile Gunnar Jensen has a few surprising secrets to share. Such as: In addition to being a habitual alcoholic and reformed-but-unpredictable member of the squad, Gunnar's revealed to be a chemical engineering savant and former Fulbright scholar — elements cheekily borrowed from Lundgren's real life.
Long before the veteran of Rocky IV, Red Scorpion, Universal Soldier and, yes, Masters of the Universe earned his reputation as an imposing fixture in the '80s and '90s action realm, Lundgren was a decorated student who followed his economist-engineer father into the sciences and earned a master's degree in chemical engineering. A chance meeting with singer Grace Jones sparked his Hollywood aspirations; shortly after making his debut in A View To A Kill, 1985's Rocky IV and the memorable Russian boxer Ivan Drago marked Lundgren's big break, catapulting him to fame alongside fellow icons stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (who team up to defeat the dastardly Jean-Claude Van Damme in Expendables 2).
As the golden age of the beefy, brawny action star waned, however, Lundgren turned increasingly to direct-to-DVD fare, but these days Lundgren is content with how things turned out: "I got married, had two kids, brought them up in Europe, got divorced, came back here again, and the kids are okay — they didn?t become victims of Hollywood or anything, so that feels good too."
Later this year the 54-year-old actor (who also writes, produces, and directs) will follow Expendables 2 with another high profile return to his roots, of sorts, in the 3-D sequel Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning. And while the bulk of his upcoming slate remains firmly in action territory, Lundgren's turn…
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