'Dolph: Unbreakable'; Gino at the Movies

There's no one like him. Period. End of story. That's a rare thing. A guy that size that can move like that. Yeah. This guy has star power. What does he not have? I just knew that everyone would hate him because he was too perfect. I'll be free. Well, from a lifetime of hidden battles to an unrelenting drive to survive, a new documentary pulls back the curtain on action icon Dolph Lundgren. Yeah, and it is quite a documentary. It's such a story. We'll get into that in a second. But imagine what that is like as you watch your life on the screen. What is it like watching your life be told in this film? It's a bit unreal. Thank Especially the cancer part of it. Not just that part, but I think a lot of it seems like, some parts of it seems like it was somebody else. Not me, another version of me, kind of another iteration of myself. But it is such an amazing story, right? you. Because who knew that you would become Dolph Lundgren that you are? No, I didn't. I was just a kid in Sweden who was not happy. Would you know, being in Sweden, I wasn't happy with being a chemical engineer. He didn't really know what he wanted to do, but I knew I wanted some kind of adventure and I got it. You know, I got it big time. And what a great adventure it has been. You know, I look at the films you've made and, you know, people know who Dolph Lundgren is. That's an amazing thing to have happen. I know that. All right. And. It's funny because I never set out to be an actor, to be somebody famous. I just set out to find myself and my place in the world, I guess. And whether that be chemical engineering, martial arts or acting, I wasn't sure, but it became all of them. All of them. Absolutely. Okay. So he's very open about how tough and actually vulnerable some of the moments in the documentary are. So how did he get himself through kind of those moments in real time? Yeah, he got a misdiagnosis and if they had not diagnosed it correctly, he would have died. So imagine facing that. Yeah. What were your thoughts when you were facing death? What did you say to yourself? I, I, I appreciated my life. I said, I had a good life. Um, And I realized that I had made the right decisions all along because I didn't want to stay in little Sweden and I wanted to follow my dreams, which I had done. So I felt good about that. But like anybody who faces your potential mortality, you're obviously thinking about your kids, your wife, people are you going to leave behind, and how do you take care of them, And how do you shut, how do you? Protect them and how you're gonna tell them how you're gonna bring the news to them It's more about other people really, you know, you're sort of your own your own fate I didn't find it that easy. It wasn't that difficult to accept it It was just that I I didn't want to give up but I I could accept it actually It was just more the people around me, you know that I felt sorry for them And it's a misdiagnosis. And then when you find out that you're going to get better, can there be a greater celebration in your life? Yeah, it was a gradual, yeah, I found out gradually because, you know, I was told immediately I was misdiagnosed. But then it took a few, about a few, a month or two for the meds to work. And now, of course, I've been NED now for three years, no evidence of disease. So, you know, you never know what's going to happen, but it's. It certainly does feel like, not just it saved my life, but it saved the way I look at life as well. I can only imagine, you know, you think that it's over, you're saying your goodbyes and then that misdiagnosis and then you find out you're going to be okay. Good for Dolph Lundgren. I know you're a big fan. The documentary is out right now. Where do we watch it? You find it on, just do a search. You'll find it on many different platforms. We'll find it, we'll watch it. See, that's him on the right from your favorite Rocky IV when he was the villain in Rocky IV. So good. Really, he had a second chance at life. Yes, he did. He's living it to the fullest. Good for him. Thanks, Gino. Thank you.