Tom Arnold’s return to ‘True Lies’ and stud star Steve Howey’s ‘back fat’
nypost.comArnold, 64, guest-stars in Wednesday night’s episode of “True Lies” (10 p.m. on CBS) as Arnie, an ex-Omega operative living off-the-grid who, along with his onetime Omega flame, Sharon (Kate Vernon), is being targeted for murder years later by a former colleague.Arnie and Sharon, who’s living a quiet suburban life, are still bitter over their long-ago breakup; they (comically) bicker back and forth in front of Harry and Helen (series stars Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga), the husband-and-wife Omega agents trying to save their lives.The series, which premiered March 1, is based on the hit 1994 tongue-in-cheek spy movie “True Lies” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis as Harry and Helen and Arnold as Albert “Gib” Gibson, Harry’s teammate and Omega partner.
James Cameron, who directed the movie, is an executive producer on the CBS series (in which Omar Miller plays Gib).“There was actually a sequel to the movie that was written,” Arnold told The Post. “This was 2001 and [the sequel] was very good except it had Arnold and I coming up on a submarine that came on shore at the base of the Twin Towers, and then that terrible thing happened … and Jim Cameron said, ‘I’m just not able to make terrorism funny for a while’ of course.
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