“He Wasn’t Invited to That Party”: Sylvester Stallone Says Steven Seagal Was Begging to Join The Expendables

The Expendables (Rotten Tomatoes: 41%) remains the Avengers of action movies. The all-time greats combined their powers across the series – except for one notable absentee: Steven Seagal. He never appeared at all. Instead, he has gone on to create his own Temu version of The Expendables. There were talks about Seagal appearing in The Expendables 3 in 2013. Stallone himself posted on X in May 2013: “Just talked to Steven S. in Moscow… Sounds great and says he wants to be in EX3, if the part fits…” Seagal also said something similar to IGN in December 2013. “Sly just called me the other day and said that they were still [interested],” he said. “And I said, ‘Hey buddy, you’re my friend, let me know.’ He said he was going to send me a script.” Then, in an interview with The Big Issue in June 2014, Seagal revealed the reason he hadn’t joined the franchise. “I just didn’t like some of the people involved,” he said.

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