Arnold Schwarzenegger has reflected on seeing a buff Linda Hamilton for the first time before filming Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
In the first Terminator movie, directed by James Cameron, the character of Sarah Connor is initially a mild-mannered young waitress who must go up against the terror of the Terminator. By the time the sequel came around in 1991, Cameron asked Hamilton to hit the gym to prove she could continue to be a believable nemesis for a Terminator, this time the T-1000.
In the Netflix documentary, Arnold, Schwarzenegger recalled a dinner he had with Cameron and Hamilton.
"A few days before we start shooting Jim Cameron says to me, let's all get together and have a nice dinner," Arnie says in the doc.
"Linda comes in and then she takes her sweater off and I'm looking at her arms. Veins on the biceps and then the triceps — everything was like a bodybuilder except miniature."
"I said, 'I cant believe that son of a bitch is f---ing more cut than me,'" he smiled.
Schwarzenegger was previously Mr Universe - the winner of a bodybuilding competition - and has been known throughout his career for his size and muscles.
Schwarzenegger changed Cameron's Terminator vision
In The Terminator, Schwarzenegger's portrayal is all the more terrifying due to his size and strength.
But, the original plan for the T-800 was for him to be your normal, average man, so that he could easily blend into crowds.
“I couldn’t get over how unique face was, how it almost just projected this kind of raw power," director Cameron told GQ.
"And my conception of the character had been that he was more of an infiltrator. But then my perspective shifted and I would say that it kind of pivoted on a dime. All right, if I cast this guy, how are they not all going to see him coming? How does he not stand out in a crowd?
"How do they not all look at him? And I thought, ‘you know what, don’t worry about it because he would make an amazing terminator.’ Because I just saw him as like this kind of bulldozer, this kind of armored tank. And he could just move through a crowd. If anybody was in his way, he’d just push them out of the way and you’d just accept it. It didn’t even have anything to do with the guns, it was just that kind of raw strength, a kind of a machine strength.”
The first movie was released in 1984 and this was followed by Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, Terminator Genisys and Terminator: Dark Fate.
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