Arnold Schwarzenegger was a ‘poser’ before ‘Terminator’: Linda Hamilton
nypost.comthree-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.
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