“I was really stupid”: Schwarzenegger recalls his funniest movie

We are in 1970. About fifteen years before Arnold Schwarzenegger had just arrived in Hollywood, before becoming one of the biggest stars in the world of action cinema with films like Commando, Conan the Barbarian or Terminator. Twenty years old and already the owner of the title of Mr. Universe, he has never shot a film, but dreams of becoming an actor.

Then he got his first role in an adventure feature film called Hercules in New York, in which – as the title suggests very well – a demigod decides to leave Mount Olympus for a modern life in downtown Manhattan. Hoping there will be more distractions.

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Considered one of the worst films of Schwarzenegger’s career and with an average audience rating of 1,430 stars out of 5 (slightly higher than Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin), Hercules is mocking the actor himself in New York today, who didn’t hesitate to call. him “total delusion” During the interview in 2017.

“It was my first movie and they had to dub my voice. My name is Arnold Strong in the movie. I was really stupid.”– he told the microphone of the site Insider.

“I had to watch it when my kids saw it because it was so silly. In one scene, you see me wrestling with a bear and you can tell very well that bear in Central Park isn’t having it. Not really, it was a guy in a fur coat. But money It wasn’t much. The budget for this movie was $300,000. We shot it in 1969, everything cost less.”

“I hadn’t seen it in a long time when my kids found it and threw it and they saw me wrestling with the bear. And I had to stop to watch it all. The fight sequence with the bear, just to watch how funny it was.”

If Schwarzenegger’s beginnings in Hollywood were rather forgettable, the Austrian actor eventually rose to international stardom, multiplying major projects and especially with Terminator, Predator or Saga…

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