“I took him for a liar”: Before the Terminator, Linda Hamilton did not want to work with Arnold Schwarzenegger!

This is already a legendary duo in the history of cinema, and yet the tandem formed by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton in the first two Terminators (and also Terminator: Dark Fate) almost never saw the light of day!

In a three-part documentary on the life and career of the former California governor, Sarah Connor’s interpreter revealed that before meeting him, she only had a negative preconceived notion of Schwarzenegger due to his past as a bodybuilder.

He does not hesitate to qualify it “Liar” and “Possible Actor”However, Linda Hamilton revealed that she completely changed her mind after the first meeting. “I went to see Arnold out of curiosity, and he blew me away. His physicality and toughness and everything he was doing. I was like, ‘Okay, this could work.’

Perhaps even more surprisingly, the American actress also reveals that she has “Doubt” Before the success of the film. “I didn’t think it was the best scenario I was offered” In particular, he admitted and added that the film’s low budget and the low popularity of the actors and director James Cameron at the time only strengthened this pessimistic impression.

Only after that, the years finally proved to Linda Hamilton that taking the role of Sarah Connor was a good decision. And it’s also in a completely different position that the latter is set to reprise his iconic action hero role in Terminator 2, as described by Schwarzenegger in his documentary:

A few days before filming, Jim Cameron said to me, “Let’s all meet for dinner.” Linda comes in and takes off her sweater, and I look at her arms: the triceps, the veins on the biceps… she was like a miniature version of a bodybuilder. I thought, “I can’t believe my mom is cuter than me.”

Arnold’s documentary is now available exclusively on Netflix.

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