Life's A Fight. Don’t Let It Break You: Dolph Lundgren On Trauma, Stardom & Cancer

Sep 14, 2026 · 1h 59m

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0:00He said, yeah, you probably have about three years left, but I can't believe that I was that close to dying.

0:06Dolph Long Green, one of Hollywood's best-known action heroes, with the most iconic action stars of the 1980s.

0:12There's no one like him.

0:13Period.

0:14End of story.

0:15Wanted to get away from my dad, and he kind of kicked me, and I flew into some bookshelf and hit my head, and I was bleeding.

0:20I could hijack this feeling to play an action character.

0:24What if I make it like the ultimate lab creation?

0:29I must break you.

0:31It turned out to be kidney cancer.

0:34This guy says it's over, but what about, let me try this person.

0:37I found out later that those were the wrong drugs.

0:40I was misdiagnosed.

0:41Within four weeks, everything was shrinking.

0:43Your job as a man is to be in the red, to give more than you were given, to love more than you were loved.

0:52And then maybe it came back to me, you know, from the universe.

0:55That's why I was given a second chance.

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