Arnold Schwarzenegger Remembers ‘Embarrassing’ Box Office Bomb ‘The Last Action Hero’: ‘I Didn’t Want To See Anyone For A Week’
etcanada.comEvery movie star encounters at least one flop. In the three-part Netflix series “Arnold,” Arnold Schwarzenegger, 75, recently got candid about his personal “embarrassment” towards the less than stellar reception to his 1993 action-comedy “Last Action Hero”. “I cannot tell you how upset I was,” Schwarzenegger admits in the doc. “It hurts you.
It hurts your feelings. It’s embarrassing… I didn’t want to see anyone for a week. But you keep plodding along. And my mother-in-law also said this all the time: ‘Let’s just move forward.’ It’s a great message.” READ MORE: Arnold Schwarzenegger Shares Regret Over Groping Allegations: ‘It Was Bulls**t… Forget All The Excuses’ In “Last Action Here”, Schwarzenegger stars as a fictional hero, Jack Slater.
A hardcore movie enthusiast, Danny, finds himself transported into Jack’s exhilarating world where they forge an unbreakable bond. “Last Action Hero” opened with a mere $15.3 million against its colossal $85 million production budget.
The box office gross departed from Schwarzenegger’s customary drawing power, culminating in a global theatrical run that mustered $137 million. READ MORE: Arnold Schwarzenegger Admits Maria Shriver Was ‘Crushed’ When He Came Clean About Affair: ‘I Thought My Heart Stopped’ “When ‘Last Action Hero’ came out I had reached my peak after ‘Terminator 2,’ having the most successful movie of the year worldwide,” Schwarzenegger says in the doc. “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” raked in an astonishing $31.8 million during its opening weekend.
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