Arnold Schwarzenegger was a ‘poser’ before ‘Terminator’: Linda Hamilton
09.06.2023 - 19:49
/ nypost.com
three-part Netflix docuseries, “Arnold,” on Wednesday, with Hamilton, 66, revealing that she had a “snotty definition” of what an actor should be. And Schwarzenegger did not fit the bill.“By our snotty definition, Arnold was a poser, a bodybuilder pretending to be an actor,” Hamilton recalled. “But because I was curious, I went and stood off the sidelines watching Arnold, and I bought it.
The physicality and the stiffness, and all of the things that he was implementing. I was like, ‘OK, this might work,'” she explained.“The Terminator,” directed by James Cameron, premiered in 1984. The iconic sci-fi flick launched a franchise, with the latest installment, “Terminator: Dark Fate,” released in 2019.In “Arnold,” the “Chuck” actress noted how she doubted “The Terminator’s” box-office potential, calling it “truly just another job.”“I didn’t think that it was particularly greater than over scripts that I’d read.
I mean, really clueless,” Hamilton reasoned. “It was very low-budget, and we were all rather new at it. I definitely had my doubts.”For his part, the ex-California governor remembered how fit Hamilton was by the time they shot 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.”Schwarzenegger stated: “A few days before we start shooting, Jim Cameron says to me, ‘Let’s all get together and have a nice dinner.’ Linda comes in and she takes her sweater off and I’m looking at her arms.”He remarked that she had “veins on the biceps, and then triceps.